10 Feb
2003
10 Feb
'03
02:32
The 03.02.08 at 09:28, Bill Wisse wrote:
On several occasions I have noticed that for no apparent reason the CPU is extremely busy. The system monitor shows "0%idle" even after I closed down all the running programs.
This happened to me twice: the (external) modem had crashed, and was making thousands of interrupts per second. It was solved by power-cycling the modem. You can check for that watching /proc/interrupts. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson