Something Is Eating My Processor Time

carney1979

I came home to find my processor (Athlon 2100+ XP) running at 100%, and half of my 512 megs of memory being used. My computer was very slow! :evil:

When running Gnome (with System Monitor), how can I tell which process is at fault?

David

ectospasm · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject:

The way I do it is by running "top" in a terminal window. The process that's eating the most CPU resources will be listed first. Also, it shows how much memory each process is consuming.

Hope that helps.
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Malakin · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:44 am Post subject:

Personally I like kpm, just click on the process and press kill to kill it if you want. If this doesn't work then from a command line type "kill -9 <processid>" with processid being the process id obviously, this will force it to close.