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Re: Suggestions wanted for reducing CPU load
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:05:05 -0600
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Yasha Karant wrote:

> Right now, my quad core SL 6x X86-64 workstation is not responding very
> well; a quick look at top reveals:
>
> Tasks: 181 total,   2 running, 178 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> Cpu(s): 41.1%us,  7.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 51.3%id,  0.4%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   8196468k total,  8002116k used,   194352k free,     9344k buffers
> Swap:  2048252k total,  1753152k used,   295100k free,   543572k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>
>  3417 ykarant   20   0 1679m 738m 8752 S 122.2  9.2   9239:30
> plugin-containe
>  3342 ykarant   20   0 2995m 2.2g  18m R 94.9 28.2   8309:43 firefox
>
>  2051 root      20   0 4448m 3.1g 9440 S  1.8 39.6 443:40.39 Xorg
>
>  2793 ykarant    9 -11  559m 3028 1860 S  1.8  0.0  20:04.64 pulseaudio
>
>  3113 ykarant   20   0  321m 6904 5292 S  1.8  0.1 211:10.01 gkrellm
>
> 18994 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  1.8  0.0   0:00.05 kworker/2:3
>
> 19318 ykarant   20   0 15136 1140  812 R  1.8  0.0   0:00.04 top
>
> 31800 ykarant   20   0 1247m  58m  952 S  1.8  0.7  68:45.24 java
>
>     1 root      20   0 19448  872  660 S  0.0  0.0   0:04.12 init
>
>     2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.81 kthreadd
>
>     3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:06.58
> ksoftirqd/0
>     5 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03
> kworker/u:0
>     6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00
> migration/0
>     7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.26 watchdog/0
>
>     8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00
> migration/1
>    10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:09.72
> ksoftirqd/1
>    12 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.44 watchdog/1
>
> Note that from above:
>
>  3417 ykarant   20   0 1679m 738m 8752 S 122.2  9.2   9239:30
> plugin-containe
>  3342 ykarant   20   0 2995m 2.2g  18m R 94.9 28.2   8309:43 firefox
>
>
> My institution requires the use of Adobe flash (as well as java), and
> thus it seems that plugin-container is being used.  Is there an
> alternative approach?  The above seems to me a total waste of machine
> resources.
>
> Yasha Karant
>

Are you running the 32 or 64 bit version of Flash?  Are you running only 
versions from SL or from someplace else?

-Connie Sieh

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