[WBEL-users] Nothing running but CPU runs at 100%

Sharon Kimble sharon63@lineone.net
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:33 +0000


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:09:57 -0500
TNguyennsj@netscape.net wrote:

> Hi list,
> I have a laptop with WBEL.  It has a PIII 1ghz, 512MB RAM.  Even
> though there is nothing running other than those default services like
> ampd, atd, autofs, crond, gpm, iptables, irqbalance, keytable, netfs,
> network, nfslock, pcmacia, portmap, random, rawdevices, rhnsd,
> sgi_fam, syslog, wine, xinetd the CPU fan is on constantly. So I check
> using KDE System Guard to see what is going on.  The CPU load is
> always at maximum.  I wonder what else is using my system to it max
> like that.
> 
> J.T.
> 
If you run 'top' in a terminal then you'll see what the process is, and
then be able to track down whether you want it running or not.

Sharon.