[Gllug] finding which process is causing high system load

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Thu Nov 24 10:19:19 UTC 2005


On Thu, 24 November, 2005 9:31 am, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:10:46PM +0000, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
>> As you can see, when sorting by %CPU hal doesn't stick out, but by TIME+
>> it's way ahead:
>>
>> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>> 2007 root      16   0  6584 3856 1608 S  0.3  1.5 203:14.26 hald
>>
>> Thanks in advance for pointers on this,

Don't know the answer to your question - but will that just mean it's been
stuck on a wait queue (waiting for you to attach a new device) for a long
timeand therefore not really taking up much processing power at all?

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