Cpu@100%

[DaCalebMan]

For some reason my CPU's is taking a lot of stress when an open applcation, such as firefox, is idle!

Lots of tabs are open, but everything is finished loading, and system monitor says Firefox is eating up only 1-3%, more than system monitor!

Even 2-5 Mins after all apps are closed it's at 100%!

Anyone know what ta do?

[elija]

OK, the first thing to do is see what's eating the CPU.

Open a terminal and run "top" (without the quotes). THis will show you the most intensive processes. Copy and paste the results back here.

[DaCalebMan]

Here!
3692 caleb 20 0 296m 139m 34m R 17.9 28.6 3:02.58 firefox
2604 root 20 0 200m 25m 7900 S 6.3 5.2 1:36.41 Xorg
4103 caleb 20 0 34304 14m 9632 S 2.3 2.9 0:01.72 gnome-terminal
3184 caleb 20 0 20508 10m 8464 S 0.7 2.2 0:05.16 metacity
3187 caleb 20 0 75872 22m 15m S 0.3 4.7 0:10.32 nautilus
3237 caleb 20 0 23720 10m 8408 S 0.3 2.2 0:05.03 multiload-apple
3291 caleb 20 0 17992 6676 5100 S 0.3 1.3 0:04.91 gnome-screensav
4122 caleb 20 0 2448 1176 912 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.24 top
1 root 20 0 3084 564 564 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.35 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/0
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kstop/0
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/



I later found out that the problem was, I had two firefox apps running in different desks... But they were both on idle, and all the pages stopped loading...

Shouldn't my PC be able to handle this?

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Intel Celeron@ 2.4Ghz, 504MB of DDR RAM, Motherboard HP D330 DT Desktop

[devils casper]

Which Graphics Card do you have? Are you using correct Graphics Driver?
Execute this

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xrog.conf

Post output here.

[DaCalebMan]

sudo lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
caleb@caleb-desktop:~$ grep -i driver /etc/X11/xrog.conf

[elija]

Ah. Typo's!

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xrog.conf

should be

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[DaCalebMan]

Well, I reverted back to the 2D driver because no video would play. There's a considerable performance drop when loading apps, and as I said before, CPU usage increased. At least movies played though. I think it's just my Graphics Card.

I'll upgrade to a better one and keep the 3D driver which should work on it.

But I just have one more question: I contacted HP and asked them to list all Nvidia GPUs are compatible with my mobo, and they gave me this list.

Which one of these is the fastest/best?


NVIDIA Quadro4 100NVS AGP (64MB, dual VGA) full height PCI bracket
NVIDIA Quadro4 100NVS AGP (64MB, dual VGA) low profile PCI bracket
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 (32MB, VGA) full height PCI bracket
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 (32MB, VGA) low profile PCI bracket
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440/8 (64MB, 8XAGP, VGA,
S-video) full height PCI bracket
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440/8 (64MB, 8XAGP, VGA,
S-video) low profile PCI bracket
NVIDIA GeForce FX 128MB DDR w VGA & S-video (AGP8X) low profile
NVIDIA GeForce FX 128MB DDR w VGA & S-video (AGP8X) full height
Refer to the link for more details:
HP Compaq Business Desktop d330 Series - World Wide QuickSpecs