[arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

[Chris Bannister]

What got updated?

2009/3/15 Preston C. <gprestonc at gmail.com>:
> My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It
> was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month.
> Here is what "$top" gives me:
>
>
> top - 16:22:55 up 9 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68
> Tasks:  99 total,   3 running,  96 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 34.8%us, 18.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 46.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:   2073268k total,   698532k used,  1374736k free,    14572k buffers
> Swap:  2281220k total,        0k used,  2281220k free,   384848k cached
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2973 preston   20   0 80996  19m  14m R   99  1.0   7:17.37 kded4
>  2931 root      20   0  331m  53m 4288 S    3  2.6   0:28.89 X
>  2999 preston   20   0  272m  38m  22m S    3  1.9   0:17.47 plasma
>  3076 preston   20   0  224m  95m  21m S    1  4.7   0:50.88 firefox
>    1 root      20   0  1688  576  512 S    0  0.0   0:00.71 init
>    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
>    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
>    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/0
>    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
>    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
>    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
>    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
>    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0
>   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 events/1
>   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>   12 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kstop/0
>   13 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kstop/1
>   14 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kblockd/0
>   15 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1
>   16 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
>   17 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_notify
>   18 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 kseriod
>   19 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
>   20 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 pdflush
>   21 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
>   22 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
>   23 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1
>   32 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 ata/0
>   33 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/1
>   34 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux
>   38 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
>   39 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Preston
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