[PLUG] Troubleshooting Slow Laptop -- Update

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 23:34:07 UTC 2009


On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Bill Barry <barryb at proaxis.com> wrote:
> 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?

GNOME System Monitor is known to use a fair amount of CPU:
http://abock.org/2008/09/03/stay-classy-gnome/

--
Dan Young



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