CPU hovers at 99-100%, plasma the culprit

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: CPU hovers at 99-100%, plasma the culprit
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 8:39 AM
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear fellow testers,
> >
> > CPU is hovering at 99 to 100%.  running Top shows
> plasma is taking it up.  Logging out and back in makes no
> difference.  Something is wrong with plasma from new updates
> :(
> 
> Mine is normal. Tried with another user? (yes, that's
> kind of a
> standard test for me, with desktop sessions anyway :-).
> 
> 
> jerry
> -- 
> There's plenty of youth in America - it's time we
> find the "fountain of smart".
> 
> -- 


On the third machine which booted, here's output of top

[olivares at localhost ~]$ top

top - 11:43:48 up 3 min,  3 users,  load average: 4.11, 1.94, 0.76
Tasks: 170 total,   2 running, 167 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 38.4%us, 10.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 50.2%id,  0.2%wa,  0.8%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1023980k total,   866540k used,   157440k free,    24492k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   519768k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3138 olivares  20   0  105m  24m  16m R 62.7  2.4   0:35.08 plasma
 2836 root      20   0  350m  26m 8760 S 33.9  2.7   0:24.42 X
 3200 olivares  20   0 98.0m  11m 8100 S  1.0  1.2   0:00.67 gkrellm
 3191 olivares  20   0 98.0m  11m 8084 S  0.7  1.1   0:00.65 gkrellm
 3369 olivares  20   0  147m  24m  15m S  0.7  2.5   0:00.60 konsole
 1828 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.23 kondemand/0
 2391 avahi     20   0  2880 1432 1264 S  0.3  0.1   0:00.02 avahi-daemon
 3124 olivares  20   0 60520  16m  12m S  0.3  1.7   0:00.96 kwin
 3248 olivares  20   0 56880  11m 9160 S  0.3  1.1   0:00.18 klipper
 3331 olivares  20   0 67644  12m 7712 S  0.3  1.2   0:00.19 notification-da
 3402 olivares  20   0  2428 1096  832 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.04 top
    1 root      20   0  2012  844  636 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.31 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 migration/0
[olivares at localhost ~]$

Regards,

Antonio