On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:19 PM, DB <Freddog_de@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > Tasks: 128 total, 3 running, 125 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 53.6%us, 45.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 510416k total, 451276k used, 59140k free, 22560k buffers > Swap: 2047992k total, 2140k used, 2045852k free, 199012k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 1922 root 20 0 72224 30m 5748 R 69.5 6.1 15:45.70 X > 2132 Dave 20 0 126m 33m 21m R 24.5 6.7 1:20.48 ksysguard > 2088 Dave 20 0 259m 28m 18m S 2.6 5.6 0:03.76 kwin > 2091 Dave 20 0 297m 24m 14m S 0.7 4.9 0:02.54 knotify4 > 2092 Dave 20 0 304m 37m 23m S 0.7 7.4 0:13.00 plasma-desktop A few things could be happening: 1) Your CPU may be in a throttled state already. top is not giving an absolute percentage of cpu utilization versus the full capability of the processor. I.e., the CPU% may be misleading. 2) Running top itself outputs lots of data to the display. You may get different results if you SSH'ed into the system and ran top remotely. 3) You're running a graphics intensive desktop (plasma). If you don't have proper hardware support then the CPU will have to do all the heavy lifting. Even something as innocuous as scrolling text on a transparent window will chew up CPU cycles. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines