On 10/29/2010 7:10 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/29/2010 04:05 AM, Nigel Bishop wrote: >> I am running Fedora 13 with Linux Kernel 2.6.33-3.85.fc13.x86_64 with Gnome >> 2.30.0 on HP laptop ProBook 4510S >> >> At times, it almost freezes, with very slow response to the keyboard. System >> monitor shows that something is hogging the CPU. Sometimes, after a few >> minutes, it recovers, other times I have to re-boot. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Nigel >> >> > > Which system monitor program are you using? > > To my surprise, gnome-system-monitor shows me, under Processes, only my > processes, not all the processes in the system. > > Question to everyone, is there a way to have gnome-system-monitor show > all processes, in the system, not just my processes? > > The KDE system monitor, ksysguard, on the other hand, can show me all > processes in the system. > > One can also run "top" in a shell. > If "top -i" is done, idled or zombied processes will not be displayed. > Firefox's npviewer.bin is a common culprit, here. I've seen it grab and hang onto more than 90% of CPU in both linux and WinXP, even when no Flash is being played at the time. This only happens after playing a series of youtube vids, though. The top cmd run in a root shell, or KDE system monitor will show all processes. -- 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
