A good program to see what's running and using the most CPU time is "top". Also, there is a daily cron job that runs around 06:53 local time that does varies house keeping chores like removing core files, and rotating system log files. I didn't realize there was a daily cron job running until I noticed one morning when I walked into my den that my server's hard drive was thrashing away when no one was logged into the box doing anything. Steve Mills wrote:
Using the K desktop.
After my SuSE has been up and running for a while on this Micron 166 (32mb ram) I get bogged down with memory usage. The HDD light remains on and the mouse gets choppy.
I looked in with Xosview and can see my CPU running at 100teadily. A glance with top and I see something called "find" claiming 930f my CPU usage, so I kill it. Then "mandb" runs up to 78%. Kill that. Now things are good again.
What was happening? I have only used Terminal, KMail and Netscape this morning on a fresh boot. I have a screensaver active, is that it? I just can't see the CPU remaining under a load after the screensaver stops.
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