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thepanu

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Registered: 2009-01-15

Posts: 45

How to figure out what is eating all my resources?

I am out of ideas.

My desktop machine is eating all resources right after boot, as shown by plasma applet and _extremely_ sluggish behaviour and constant blinking of hd access led.. But, htop doesn't show any process dominating and shows cpu usage at ~10%. Same goes for iotop, no process dominating and no constant access according to it.

I updated my machine yesterday and everything went fine. I am using kdemod.

So, where to start?

P.S And possibly unrelated, before update i got Grub error 18 at boot which went away with booting to arch live cd followed by normal boot. Same thing happened after update as well.

Thanks.

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 1,373

Re: How to figure out what is eating all my resources?

Sounds your update may have fixed a bug that had nothing to do with resource hogging, rather just running slowly?

Unless you get that grub error again, I suggest reformatting the mbr of your main drive with grub-install.

thepanu

Member

Registered: 2009-01-15

Posts: 45

Re: How to figure out what is eating all my resources?

I went and bought new hd as I needed one anyway as I have started fearing for hd failure in near future.

I am going to make completely fresh install and see if things improve.