My bust it isn't kapm-idle using up the process .....
This behavior starts after I start Nautilus to look at some files. top
displays my user process staying at 50%. Even when I quit Nautilus it
is still there. The system process are taking up 10% and niced is
taking up the last 40%. This makes sense as to why gkrellm is reporting
60% usage. It has taken the 50% Nautilus seems to have eatten up with
my user and added the 10% for the system processes to display the 60% it
is sitting at now.
Tried this again. Rebooted and started setiathome and it was nice
working and showing 99% niced. Run Nautilus once and then setiathome is
now pushed down to 38%.
Greg
Greg Sarsons wrote:
>
> Why does the reporting of processes seem to change?
>
> For example, when I reboot and start setiathome it uses idle cycles.
> kpm or top show this as I would expect. kpm showes 99% (niced) and top
> showes 94%. gkrellm does not show it unless I tell it to display
> programs which are niced. This correct. kapm-idled is showing 0.00 at
> this time.
>
> Now after using the computer for a while or doing something what is
> displayed changes. I end up with seeing on the cpu meter of gkrellm my
> cpu use sitting at 60ish% without displaying processes that are niced.
> top has now got setiathome around 40ish%. kapm-idle looks like it is
> using the 60% which all the tools are reporting.
>
> What could cause this?
>
> Greg
