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High cpu usage with mintmenu

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AlbertP wrote:Please open a new topic. Xorg's CPU usage has nothing to do with this.

Hi,

My problem could come from the issue of Intel Driver, Xorg also. This is what i figure out. So at this time my question is on the rigth post.
Also, as I mentionned in an other post, after loggin all the menus take a crazy time to appear and I realized that Python was taking 70% of my cpu...

So this problem could come from many sources, including Intel Drivers at it can slow down a machine

Thanks.
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Re: Load correct MESA DRI Intel drivers for Linux Mint 14 RC

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Hello again,

After a Top and C after loggin, I confirm that is Python that takes more than 95 % of my CPU, for the MintMenu/plugins/get_apt_cache.py. See the screenshot.

I tried to remove Mint update from the automatic software at start up, the problem is still the same.

Any idea ?

Thanks
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Re: Load correct MESA DRI Intel drivers for Linux Mint 14 RC

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Bali wrote:Hello again,

After a Top and C after loggin, I confirm that is Python that takes more than 95 % of my CPU, for the MintMenu/plugins/get_apt_cache.py. See the screenshot.

I tried to remove Mint update from the automatic software at start up, the problem is still the same.

Any idea ?

Thanks
According to your screenshot it's a plugin in MintMenu (apt-cache?) that appears to be causing the problem, not MintUpdate. You can always try removing MintMenu from the panel as a test just to see if it temporarily solves the problem. I've used LM 13 MATE and am currently using LM 14 MATE neither one has exhibited this problem so it's a strange one.

According to the specs you posted in your previous post the Intel driver is loading correctly and it sounds to me that apt may be stuck. Either way, I believe that AlbertP is correct and you should open another topic, leave the link to that topic here and we can go from there. :D

Update: I don't know what happened but my comment here appears to have become scrambled upon "submit". I did preview it more than once to check for grammatical errors before I posted it so I don't know what happened. I have corrected the rather glaring errors.
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Re: Load correct MESA DRI Intel drivers for Linux Mint 14 RC

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Bali's GLX Renderer is right; this could of course be an Intel problem but it is not "the" Mint 14 Intel problem. Probably a moderator can split the topic.
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Re: High cpu usage with mintmenu

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Topic split by moderator.
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Re: High cpu usage with mintmenu

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It appears you are using MATE instead of Cinnamon, is that right?
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Re: Load correct MESA DRI Intel drivers for Linux Mint 14 RC

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AlbertP wrote:Bali's GLX Renderer is right; this could of course be an Intel problem but it is not "the" Mint 14 Intel problem. Probably a moderator can split the topic.
Ok thanks for the information;

Yes AlbertP, i use Mate. Any idea?

Thank you
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Re: Load correct MESA DRI Intel drivers for Linux Mint 14 RC

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kmb42vt wrote:
Bali wrote:Hello again,

After a Top and C after loggin, I confirm that is Python that takes more than 95 % of my CPU, for the MintMenu/plugins/get_apt_cache.py. See the screenshot.

I tried to remove Mint update from the automatic software at start up, the problem is still the same.

Any idea ?

Thanks
According to your screenshot it's a plugin in MintMenu (apt-cache?) that appears to be causing the problem, not MintUpdate. You can always try removing MintMenu from the panel as a test just to see if it temporarily solves the problem. I've used LM 13 MATE and am currently using LM 14 MATE neither one has exhibited this problem so it's a strange one.

According to the specs you posted in your previous post the Intel driver is loading correctly and it sounds to me that apt may be stuck. Either way, I believe that AlbertP is correct and you should open another topic, leave the link to that topic here and we can go from there. :D

Update: I don't know what happened but my comment here appears to have become scrambled upon "submit". I did preview it more than once to check for grammatical errors before I posted it so I don't know what happened. I have corrected the rather glaring errors.
Hi,

Thanks for your help.

I did what you said: removing the Mint Menu: still very slow.

Any other idea?

Thank you.

Bali
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Re: High cpu usage with mintmenu

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Hi,



Until today my problem is not solved . After loggin, icons from desktop and dashboard, and program at startup are crazy slow to comes up.

I unchecked all the software on start up, tried some tricks or fixes from people that have the same problem than me : no success.

I tried to install Mint XFCE 13, and i have the same problem than with Mint Mate 13.
I tried Open Suze 12 : I don't have this kind of problem, like i never had it before with Mint 9.

For now the only solution i found is to install a software named Preload. Now everything runs faster but still too slowly compare to Mint 9 and Open Suze.

More, for me it's not clean : I would like to know what is the software, service that slow down my machine and solve the problem.

I made two bootchart images. But I really don't understand how to read this file: i am not able to deduce anything from it.

Could someone have a look to my two JPEG files and tells me if something looks wrong ?

Thank you so much for your help in advance.
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Re: High cpu usage with mintmenu

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I got the same issue. get_apt_cache.py and checkAPT are slowing down the CPU.
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High cpu usage with mintmenu [SOLVED]

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goetzkluge wrote:I got the same issue. get_apt_cache.py and checkAPT are slowing down the CPU.
The time synchronization seems to be the problem.

As I run my linux from an external disk and as I used it during a trip on a PC which runs its HW-clock on local time, I had changed UTC in /etc/default/rcS to "NO". (By the way, that didn't help. I still had to readjust the MS-Windows time after running the external Linux).

Anyway, now I am back at my PC which has its HW clock running with UTC. As the setting for travelling was the only thing which I had changed recently, I reckoned that this may have been the culprit.

After setting UTC in /etc/default/rcS to YES again and after running sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata in order to select my timezone, the problem with get_apt_cache.py and checkAPT.py disappeared
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