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

[Eric Wood]

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> 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.

I would doubt it's KDE related.... anyway:
1. Is it at 100% in X windows only?
2. Does 'top' show you which process?
3. "service xxx stop" each service one at a time is see which service may be
the problem.
4. Whatever processes are left running (barring the kernel related ones),
strace -p <PID> each one until your see a bunch of activity comming from
one.

-eric wood