20% CPU at rest in gkrellm

rafal · 2006-09-30 07:48:59

I'm wondering why my gkrellm shows permanently approx. 20%CPU when I run KDE and gkrellm. I have also debian on HD and there I have only 3%CPU also in KDE without any other apps run,

Any idea what is taking so much CPU?
Thanks in advance

_adam_ · 2006-09-30 09:02:04

open a terminal and run "top" to see which process is using so much cpu.

rafal · 2006-09-30 09:15:21

"top" shows that 15% takes syslog-ng is it normal?

Snarkout · 2006-09-30 15:06:27

It's possible, and I've seen it before on servers going bananas, but I'd imagine you're doing a hell of a lot of logging. Does this box do remote logs for a network, or just your own box? If it's just your own box, you might want to take a look in dmesg and in /var/log and see if anything is getting TEH HYOOG3! A better way to put it is that there may be other activity on your box causing syslog-ng to have to do a *lot* of logging.

This is assuming that syslog-ng is pinned at the top of your top output, and that you've restarted it to clear out any ghost farts that might be caught in the works.

rafal · 2006-09-30 16:27:33

It's possible, and I've seen it before on servers going bananas, but I'd imagine you're doing a hell of a lot of logging. Does this box do remote logs for a network, or just your own box? If it's just your own box, you might want to take a look in dmesg and in /var/log and see if anything is getting TEH HYOOG3!

In fact syslog-ng has been doing too much logging, it writes about 200 lines of the same message in one second like this (/var/log/kernel.log):

Sep 30 12:01:12 tux usb 2-2: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -22
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux usb 2-2: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -22
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux usb 2-2: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -22
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux usb 2-2: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -22
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux usb 2-2: usbfs: usb_submit_urb returned -22

and in message.log

Sep 30 12:01:12 tux modem_run[2368]: [monitoring report] ADSL link stays stable (up)
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux modem_run[2368]: [monitoring report] ADSL link stays stable (up)
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux modem_run[2368]: [monitoring report] ADSL link stays stable (up)
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux modem_run[2368]: [monitoring report] ADSL link stays stable (up)
Sep 30 12:01:12 tux modem_run[2368]: [monitoring report] ADSL link stays stable (up)

In fact I have a USB ADSL modem and yesterday I compiled kernel 2.6.18. Perhaps I set something wrong in kernel?

Snarkout · 2006-10-01 06:17:44

I've never config's a usb dsl modem, but I assume there must be a quiet setting for them - have you looked for that at all? At the very least, the second output you've posted appears to be the system saying I'M OK! over and over - it seems like that could be trimmed.

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#1 2006-09-30 07:48:59

20% CPU at rest in gkrellm

#2 2006-09-30 09:02:04

Re: 20% CPU at rest in gkrellm

#3 2006-09-30 09:15:21

Re: 20% CPU at rest in gkrellm

#4 2006-09-30 15:06:27

Re: 20% CPU at rest in gkrellm

#5 2006-09-30 16:27:33

Re: 20% CPU at rest in gkrellm

#6 2006-10-01 06:17:44

Re: 20% CPU at rest in gkrellm

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