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K4LCIFER

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Registered: 2021-10-04

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How to monitor cpu activity over time?

All of a sudden I have been getting these random system stutters where audio, mouse movements, and the rest of the system momentarily stutters for half a second in intervals of a minute or two. While keeping my system monitor open, They seem to coincide with very short spikes in a single core. I want to see what program is the cause of this, but I have no way of kowing what app was active at a specific time. What would be the best way to go about monitoring the cpu to troubleshoot this issue?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: How to monitor cpu activity over time?

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nmon/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/collectd

If the spikes last long enough, top/htop

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