Pecular reactions with Rawhide installation

[Stan Bubrouski]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> Using top to view memory usage, the programs gnome-vfs-daemon, 
> gnome-settings, nautilus and X seem to be the leading processes for 
> consuming cpu time. I added the cpufrequency control applet to my panel 
> and am able to control the cpu frequuency to prevent the 80 C temp then 
> shutdown. These listed processes take 28 -32 percent each in usage 
> percentage. X takes around 1 to 6.6 percent usage range.

Woh.  Clearly there is something going wrong here.  From your 
description it seems between X, gnome-vfs-daemon, gnome-settings, and 
nautilus you are using 100% CPU?  This would make everything else crawl. 
  So now the question is:  Why are these processes running out of control?

> 
> Even though the computer hovers at high speeds, it takes a long while 
> for a responsive desktop. lowering the speed does not help or hinder the 
> system responsiveness. ESD is not listed in top.
> 

If you are at 100 CPU usage constantly then there is no mystery here 
except why.

> Thanks for the hints regarding top. I'll use it to see what's going on 
> when the system is extremely slow. (it responds like a 100 MHz 
> processor, on initial startup, but is a 1.5 GHz processor)
> 
> Jim
> 

-sb