Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-11 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 08-05-2009 om 00:40 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Timo Sirainen: > Somewhat relevant, yes, but I think people talking in that page don't > understand correctly the root cause of the problem. Linux scheduler is > good enough nowadays that even lots of processes all eating 100% CPU >

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-09 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 08.05.2009 um 14:47 schrieb Andrew Sayers: > [...] then send a STOP signal to processes guilty beyond a > reasonable doubt, before asking the user what to do. Please ask the user first. There are very valid reasons why a system is running under full steam. For example, if one makes actually

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Bammer
Hi, do you know the hardware-monitor applet? I've extended this applet to have exactly this feature. It shows in the tooltip processes which consume lot's of cpu or memory ressources. But because I'm not a gnome/gtk programmer I couldn't get "kill" buttons into the tooltip. If you are interested I

Re: High CPU usage applet (how to use apport to report CPU hogs)

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Olsson
Timo Sirainen wrote: > If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be some > kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could > appear to gnome panel and clicking it would show the process details and > allow to kill it. > > Nowadays with multicore processor

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew Sayers
I think this is a really good idea. Making it an applet would let you list "suspects" (programs that have a high CPU load, or use a lot of memory, etc.), then send a STOP signal to processes guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, before asking the user what to do. I once played around with a comman

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-07 Thread Emmet Hikory
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Friday 08 May 2009 12:40:04 am Timo Sirainen wrote: >> Somewhat relevant, yes, but I think people talking in that page don't >> understand correctly the root cause of the problem. Linux scheduler is >> good enough nowadays that even lots of processes all eating 100%

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-07 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 08 May 2009 12:40:04 am Timo Sirainen wrote: > Somewhat relevant, yes, but I think people talking in that page don't > understand correctly the root cause of the problem. Linux scheduler is > good enough nowadays that even lots of processes all eating 100% CPU > don't make the syste

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On May 7, 2009, at 10:35 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be > some > kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could > appear to gnome panel and clicking

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-07 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be some > kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could > appear to gnome panel and clicking it would show the process details and > allow to kill it. Th

High CPU usage applet

2009-05-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be some kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could appear to gnome panel and clicking it would show the process details and allow to kill it. Nowadays with multicore processors this 100% CPU usage can be diff