[PLUG] Troubleshooting Slow Laptop -- Update

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   Here's more information. I discovered the system monitor and I'm looking
> at the GUI display of resource use. The CPU started at 100% for several
> seconds, then dropped near zero. Now it's about 47% with nothing running
> but the monitor. 'top' on this machine shows CPU use near zero. Wonder
> what's consuming processor cycles.

   In reply to Bill, it's the system monitor! I closed that, opened a virtual
console, and ran top. It showed 0.7-1.0%. Then I started the GUI system
monitor and the usage shot up to 43+%. Sheesh!

Rich

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