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continuous high cpu usage

Bug #416632 reported by Tom Smythe

This bug report was converted into a question: question #82242: continuous high cpu usage.

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Bug Description

Is there a program which can help me to analyse the level of harddisk access of the running programs?

I am looking for something like top/ps/htop that shows instead of the CPU-usage the harddisk access level of the programs.

Sometimes my work gets blocked because some program accesses the harddisk extensively and I want to trace this high disk activity down to the right program.

Thanks for your help!

Tom Smythe (mythtomes)
summary: - I have continuous high cpu usage
+ I have continuous high cpu usage, always above 50% even with only system
+ monitor running. Also at the top of my process list is often a nameless
+ process that changes process id constantly.
summary: I have continuous high cpu usage, always above 50% even with only system
monitor running. Also at the top of my process list is often a nameless
- process that changes process id constantly.
+ process that changes process id constantly though is alway shown to be
+ 'sleeping'.
summary: I have continuous high cpu usage, always above 50% even with only system
monitor running. Also at the top of my process list is often a nameless
process that changes process id constantly though is alway shown to be
- 'sleeping'.
+ 'sleeping'. This is true on both my laptop and desktop running Jaunty.
+ Anyone tell me what is going on?
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Timmie (timmie) wrote : Re: I have continuous high cpu usage, always above 50% even with only system monitor running. Also at the top of my process list is often a nameless process that changes process id constantly though is alway shown to be 'sleeping'. This is true on both my laptop and desktop running Jaunty. Anyone tell me what is going on?

I had a similar problem.
There is a command line program in the repositories.
Forgot its name. Search for *top* in the package manager.

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Timmie (timmie) wrote :

Hey, I remembered.

You can use iotop on command line:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/iotop

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Timmie (timmie) wrote :

I think iotop should be included in the system-monitor.

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arky (arky) wrote :

Converting this bug into a question.

summary: - I have continuous high cpu usage, always above 50% even with only system
- monitor running. Also at the top of my process list is often a nameless
- process that changes process id constantly though is alway shown to be
- 'sleeping'. This is true on both my laptop and desktop running Jaunty.
- Anyone tell me what is going on?
+ continuous high cpu usage
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arky (arky) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Invalid
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Tom Smythe (mythtomes) wrote : Re: [Bug 416632] Re: continuous high cpu usage

arky wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
> not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to
> a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you
> are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are
> having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if
> you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Converted to question:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/82242
>
>
 Please check my most recent (few minutes ago) posting relative to this.
There are problems in the system.

thanks.

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