Resource drain on system idle

[newW2]

i hope this is the right place to post this question / issue. I notice that my system resources max-out when the system sits idle for 10-minutes, which is what the screen saver "was" set to. I have screen saver un-checked to watch / verify this is happening. I have AMD 4000 @ 2.4 G. and 1 GB ram.

This isn't normal is it? Not for Linux?

Thanks in advance.

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[Boo]

@ newW2
this should be a new topic, it will get more attention that way too.

(im sure someone will split this post.)

[newW2]

Thanks for the quick reply

Az Van

[Husse]

Topic split

system resources max-out

Exactly what is happening?
It's always easier to answer with more facts

[scorp123]

I notice that my system resources max-out when the system sits idle for 10-minutes, which is what the screen saver "was" set to.

Do you have beagle installed? Chances are its indexing stuff in the background and thus consumes a lot of I/O and CPU cycles. I personally don't like that stuff at all and removed it plus all its components completely. Can you check if beagle is on your system? It could be the culprit causing this ...

[newW2]

Yes scorp there is a beagle barking in the the back yard. I've removed beagle and will monitor to see if that helps. Promptly got a "could not load icon (icon 'system-search' not found)" popup after removal.

I noticed that evolution is one of the things that it indexes. I have another machine that I just loaded that has beagle installed but not evolution setup.

One other specific: beryl is installed on the box presenting this issue.

Now for some coffee ....

Edit:

Removing beagle has not affect.

Correction it did work. I tried it again - seems like magic but I'm sure I did something different. Thanks again for the help.

[NiksaVel]

I would suggest always checking what is being installed / removed before clicking the "apply" button in synaptic/adept...