processes

[mr orion77]

a few questions:

1. is it normal to have 6 getty processes running at once
2. 2 kdm processes at once
3. 2 opera processes

just ran gkrellm and the cpu meter is at 99% and i checked the processes and they are all going along.

[hard candy]

I'm assuming that since you have kdm going, KDE is going as well. Open Ksysguard and see what it says about the CPU usage.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Sounds normal to me.

You should have a getty running for each pseudo terminal you can login on. (ie, each Alt+F1-F8) keys. So yeah, 6 gettys, running on ttyv1-6, is okay.

[bwkaz]

Since the CPU usage is at 99%, which process is using all of it?

ps aux has a %CPU column. Check to see which processes have a high number in it. getty won't, because all that gettys do is wait for input. kdm might, but not likely. Opera might if it's screwed up (but then again, you might have 2 processes because you have 2 threads and your process monitoring program doesn't understand that), but I kinda doubt it.

Are you running Overclockix? If so, it automatically starts a Folding@Home client when it installs, and F@H takes a lot of CPU (all that it can get its hands on, actually). And I really really don't like it that they do that, because somebody's getting points for your processor without you knowing it...

[gehidore]

Originally posted by bwkaz
Are you running Overclockix? If so, it automatically starts a Folding@Home client when it installs, and F@H takes a lot of CPU (all that it can get its hands on, actually). And I really really don't like it that they do that, because somebody's getting points for your processor without you knowing it...

and i was just going to check out "overclockix", i too hate that little known fact about the folding programs, they say they'll only take "unused" processing power on your boxen "downtime" but they lie like dogs about that one.

[mr orion77]

its gone down now, there was a process i killed that did the trick, yet my memory is rather high
250,000 on average being used (i have 256mb ram).
im just goin through the system and looking at things to see if they are ok, any processes in general that can be killed?

im tryin to re-learn before i do the LFS thing :) (lol its gonna be a challenge)

[gehidore]

Originally posted by mr orion77
its gone down now, there was a process i killed that did the trick, yet my memory is rather high
250,000 on average being used (i have 256mb ram).
im just goin through the system and looking at things to see if they are ok, any processes in general that can be killed?

im tryin to re-learn before i do the LFS thing :) (lol its gonna be a challenge)

unlike windows, linux will use the ram (as the slowest ram is still faster than any hard drive) and will free up whats needed as it needs it) all the time, i have 1gb and on average 700+ is always being used.

[mr orion77]

oh ok then, its true you really do learn a new thing everyday:)