50-60% CPU load when running nothing.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:12 am
My Lenovo was running very hot lately so I took a look and found that it has constantly a 50-60% load, even when "idle". On a boot everything looks ok, yet even opening the simplest of application makes the CPU run at 50-60%. Closing open applications does not help. Any ideas?
lsb_release -a gives:
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Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 14 Nadia
Release: 14
Codename: nadia
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Linux ******* 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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%Cpu(s): 44.9 us, 8.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 43.5 id, 2.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 1.4 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 2009068 total, 1823728 used, 185340 free, 74824 buffers
KiB Swap: 3905532 total, 123900 used, 3781632 free, 863064 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2712 ******** 20 0 458m 104m 12m S 2.9 5.3 3:28.02 skype
1391 root 20 0 177m 25m 13m R 1.4 1.3 2:13.50 Xorg
17399 ******** 20 0 10404 4688 596 R 1.4 0.2 0:00.03 kpsewhich
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.5 0.0 0:08.07 ksoftirqd/0
1492 tomcat7 20 0 1478m 40m 6464 S 0.5 2.1 0:17.67 java
1877 ******** 9 -11 364m 5072 3120 S 0.5 0.3 0:34.49 pulseaudio
1907 ******** 20 0 280m 2628 2356 S 0.5 0.1 0:00.41 gvfs-afc-volume
1911 ******** 20 0 1107m 32m 14m S 0.5 1.7 0:10.73 caja