I did a few extra things to detect the anomaly and I found that this happens mostly when running on battery (with CPU throttling).
The CPU use gets more intense the more power friendly the power scheme is. I created an issue with a linked video because this might be happening only with VirtualBox or some weird combination. https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/5417 Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Esteban Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I constantly find Pharo eating the CPU of the VM, from 25% on idle to > 100%, which of course heats up any laptop. > > The Pharo Process monitor doesn't show anything unusual, but I cannot > tell from that tool if some process is the culprit. > > How can I know what is eating the CPU? > Is there a way to kill all the unnecessary process and respawn the needed > ones? > > I run Pharo 7 within a VirtualBox VM with Lubuntu on a Windows 10 host. > But the CPU issue happens only with Pharo. > > Regards, > > Image: Pharo-7.0.3+build.164.sha.591a635c8922e5f1cff1d0b3fbf2e525b590d25f > (64 Bit) > Vm: /lib/pharo/5.0-201901051900/pharo (downloaded by PharoLauncher) > > Esteban A. Maringolo