• Tip: discover and terminate high CPU processes (Linux)

    by  • April 25, 2010 • Tips • 6 Comments

    A quick tip to get the dust out of our blog :)

    If you hear the fan of your computer going way up, most likely that was because some application or process is using too much CPU. Find out which one and terminate it by:
    1. Open the terminal
    2. Run “top”
    3. Press “k” and the number on “pid” column of the process which appears on the top of the list.

     

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    6 Responses to Tip: discover and terminate high CPU processes (Linux)

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    2. TheArchitectNo Gravatar
      May 19, 2010 at 2:31 pm

      Nice! I’m using Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. That’s helpful.

    3. tofNo Gravatar
      May 31, 2010 at 10:14 pm

      htop is better than top ;)

      Of course htop is included in every good distros repositories.
      For info: http://htop.sourceforge.net/

    4. Cazare PredealNo Gravatar
      April 28, 2011 at 4:52 pm

      The Linux OS seems to be more difficult to understand. This can be a real advantage because you will have a lot of knowledge compared with others.

    5. PicturiNo Gravatar
      April 30, 2011 at 8:06 am

      This process can be terminated if you use the Linux console. I believe this is the optimal solution for a process like this one.

    6. antiquesNo Gravatar
      August 24, 2011 at 12:16 pm

      Very nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog and wished to say that I have really enjoyed browsing your blog posts. After all I??l be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!

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