I fully understand. Does your machine respond normally? If your CPU was truly pegged at 100% then your machine would be completely unusable. You would not be able to launch Firefox, Nautilis or much of anything. It is possible the applet is reporting inaccurate data or it is being mis-read. Could you post a screenshot of the utility where it shows your machine is consuming 100% of the CPU? Just press the PRINT SCREEN button your keyboard, save the screen print to disk then attach it to this bug report. Make sure there is no private data on your screen before taking the screen print.
Are you comfortable accessing the console? If so then I can walk you through confirming your system is using 100% of the cpu. The RAM consumption is completely normal for both Windows and Linux. I am attaching a screenshot of a pretty standard Windows performance monitor. In this case, even with moderate use, a Windows Vista consumes about 1.2GB of RAM and Windows 7 consumes even more. The reason why your system appears to use 876MB (which is a pretty small number) is because most of that is used by your swap partition. There are 2 reasons why data is swapped to disk. First, when the system requires more memory than is physically available, the kernel swaps out less used pages and gives memory to the current application (process) that needs the memory immediately. This is unlikely in your case because you have enough RAM available. Second, a significant number of the pages used by an application during its startup phase may only be used for initialization and then never used again. The system can swap out those pages and free the memory for other applications or even for the disk cache. If your system is loaded long enough then eventually that data will be garbage collected freeing up space for other data. If you have enough RAM then that data may be stored in your swap partition for days, weeks, months or years assuming your machine is never rebooted. I hope this helps. ** Attachment added: "Windows Performance Tab" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36507451/WindowsPerformanceTab.jpg -- Nautilus uses 100% cpu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/492810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
