>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:51 AM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: cpu constantly busy on debian sid without doing anything... > >Since some time the two cpu's of my system (Debian sid running on a >thinkpad laptop x60s) are constantly busy up to the point that even the >key-repeat (pushing down some key for repetitious input) doesn't work >anymore when using an external usb keyboard. > >the system monitor shows for example: > >CPU History: ... cpu1 76.2%, CPU2 77.8% > >and using top I find: > >Cpu(s): 70.3%us, 5.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 21.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.7%si, 0.0%st > >but no busy processes are listed (Xorg: 4% cpu, gnome-system-monitor 3% >cpu, hald 1%cpu, epiphany-browse 1%cpu, top 1%cpu, mysqld 0%cpu...) > >I wouldn't mind so much if I still could use crtr-h, ctrl-f, ctrl-n, ... >normally in my emacs. But for the moment even editing a simple text >file is a pain because of key-repeat being so slow :( > >Any idea what could be the reason? > >Thanks, Dietrich > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I once saw a similar problem. I don't know if this is your case, but I will explain what I did. I checked everything from the hard drive with iostat to the memory, my cpu was being hammered much like yours but nothing seemed to fess up to doing it. I installed htop (http://htop.sourceforge.net/ also in the repos for apt-get goodness) and then I had it display Kernel threads (run htop at the command line and sort by cpu with F6 then Shift+K to show Kernel threads). In my case it was kacpid that was chewing up my cpu. So I edited grub to be acpi=off and it went away. That was sometime ago, but a quick Google search shows that it still happens to people on Debian and Ubuntu systems. I have no idea what causes it. Hope that helps! ~Stack~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
