[PLUG] Troubleshooting Slow Laptop -- Update

[Bill Barry]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> 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
>


All monitors modify the system they are monitoring, but this is pretty
extreme. Does it explain the initial page loading problem though?

Bill