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

TNguyennsj@netscape.net TNguyennsj@netscape.net
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:58:14 -0500


"Michiel van Es" <info@pcintelligence.nl> wrote:

>TNguyennsj@netscape.net said:
>> 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.
>>
>
>Don't use graphic load stats but use good ol' top.
>Then you'll see what's using the load.
>My guesses are wine..
>
>Michiel
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No, it is not wine.  It is kudzu.  Here is what top reports.

 4142 root      25   0  1856 1856  1004 R    90.0  0.3 934:09   0 kudzu
18409 jthach    15   0 12060  11M  7988 R     4.3  2.5   0:01   0 gnome-terminal
17880 jthach    15   0 15268  14M 11336 S     2.5  3.0   1:51   0 ksysguard
14668 root      15   0 54000  20M  4648 R     1.5  4.3   3:45   0 X
17926 jthach    15   0   840  840   652 S     0.3  0.1   0:14   0 ksysguardd
18391 jthach    15   0 28912  28M 16352 S     0.3  6.0   0:33   0 mozilla-bin
16208 jthach    15   0  7072 7072  5724 S     0.1  1.4   0:11   0 metacity
16216 jthach    15   0  5816 5816  4888 S     0.1  1.2   0:15   0 magicdev
18484 root      15   0  1184 1184   900 R     0.1  0.2   0:00   0 top
    1 root      15   0   496  496   440 S     0.0  0.1   0:04   0 init
    2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 keventd
    3 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kapmd
    4 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 ksoftirqd/0
    7 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 bdflush
    5 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kswapd
    6 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kscand
    8 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kupdated
    9 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 mdrecoveryd
   13 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
   69 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 khubd
  379 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 usb-storage-0
  380 root      24   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 scsi_eh_0
 3160 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
 3553 root      15   0   576  576   496 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 syslogd
 3557 root      15   0   460  460   404 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 klogd
 3583 rpc       15   0   584  584   508 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 portmap
 3602 rpcuser   25   0   720  720   640 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 rpc.statd
 3658 root      24   0   660  660   508 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 cardmgr
 3682 root      15   0   520  520   468 S     0.0  0.1   0:01   0 apmd
 3733 root      15   0   892  892   776 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 xinetd
 3778 root      15   0   468  468   412 S     0.0  0.0   0:00   0 gpm
 3787 root      15   0   608  608   540 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 crond
 3811 xfs       15   0  4544 4544  1288 S     0.0  0.9   0:25   0 xfs
 3820 daemon    15   0   564  564   500 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 atd


I try to stop kudzu by stopping it from the services list and /etc/init.d/kudzu stop, but nothing works.

J.T.

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