How to debug high system load?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:04:27PM -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>     Hello everyone,
> 
>     On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:00:34PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:

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>     > 3. top only says currently Xorg is the most active process with 1% CPU
>     >    activity. From the activity summary of atop since boot, I see it's
>     >    Xorg with 3% CPU usage. And while idling all my 4 logical cores are
>     >    throttled down and are at about 1%.
>     >

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> 
>  Just curious, I dont see your comments on what top tells you?
> you did try running top ?
> 

I did mention it. I also tried many other things all of which I reported
back to the list. You can find the gory details in the archive.

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