firefox sucking up 102% of the CPU
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 13:54:16 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 07:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> on a fairly regular basis, firefox just drags the system to its
> knees, like right now on my fedora test system, where "top" shows it
> currently bouncing between using 101% and 102% of the CPU. that
> *can't* be right. :-)
>
> rday
>
Actually it can. (My dual dual core Opteron running a one of my servers
under load)
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6282 gilboa 20 0 640m 534m 648 S 361 13.5 0:16.45 userbase
A multithreaded application (such as firefox) can eat 100% CPU -per-
core.
If you have a P4 with hyper-threading (or above), a single process can
eat 200% (or above)...
Never the less, firefox should not eat 102% CPU... were you running a
flash-something or a heavy java applet at the time?
- Gilboa
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