Questions tagged [cpu-usage]
CPU usage indicate how much of a workload is being handled by the CPU.
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Why is my CPU usage is this high no heavy load?
This picture happens mostly at the time after starting the computer while it is almost idle. CPU usage goes around 80-100 for out of nothing. The performance mode of the fans were on but seems ...
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How to investigate continuous cpu usage by a process on Windows
My process on a users machine consumes 5-20% cpu continuously even when machine is idle. I cannot repro this issue on my end. So I am bit lost on how can I investigate this issue. Please note that 5-...
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Windows 10 task manager doesn't show process with high CPU uasge
while ago I noticed that CPU usage is high even the sound of my laptop fan increases but when i open the task manager to detect the Process that consumes CPU usage the task manager shows me that the ...
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Do processes always consume battery and cpu or are they neutral on cpu and memory usage while "inactive"?
If a process in Windows OS is currently inactive (not doing any work) does that mean that it doesn't consume any power and cpu/gpu resources?
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Mac WindowServer randomly starts hogging CPU with no explanation
I have a 2017 Macbook running Monterrey 12.5 (cant update because it's a company laptop) connected to 4 external monitors.
Usually it runs well but randomly it will suddenly slow down to a crawl and ...
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Manjaro / Plasma - CPU cores overload and get stuck at 100% one by one when cloning a big git repo
First of all, I'm not a linux expert, I'm trying to figure out as I go but sometimes it's more than I can handle.
I've been trying to get a manjaro 22.1.3 (Talos) (kernel 6.1) to work for about a week ...
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Google Chrome missing icons and high CPU usage
I recently found that icons in Google Chrome (EG next to tab names, and also in bookmarks bar), which were previously working fine, were not being rendered and instead showing the "Globe" ...
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Cannot mount cgroup v1 cpu subsystem on Linux
Suppose on Ubuntu 22.04, RHEL9 or Centos 9 Stream I have cgroup v2 turned off using systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 boot option. So I have only cgroup v1 and I want to mount cpu subsystem. The ...
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Allocate the same CPU resources to minimized Chrome as if it were maximized
I am a chrome extension developer and struggle with the problem that my automation tools are not working properly when the chrome window is minimized.
I tried a lot of different things like using ...
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System process high idle CPU usage ( 30 - 40 percent )
I am using windows 11 canary build, this issue is since windows 10, the system process uses half of my CPU as soon as I connect my pc to the internet, it makes the fan whirr fast and gaming ...
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Getting average CPU frequency
Which command should I use to get the average CPU frequency? inxi -C requires sudo.
I looked on the internet, but could not find a non-sudo command that would display what I want. I don't mind ...
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CPU 100% busy and computer very slow (from time to time)
I have a problem that something causes my computer to run at 100% cpu usage but nothing is in general processing. It looks like something is breaking up because suddenly all running processes got 10x ...
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RHEL7 - High CPU load when write to NAS
I do not understand, what is the reason for very high "load average" reported by top.
This is RHEL 7. The problem is repeatable. We have one remote NAS and when one user-space process start ...
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Windows PC always has many updates to complete when I come back after a few days, CPU locked up
I have an HP laptop a few years old that I often leave closed (I think in sleep mode) for a few days at a time. When I come back, for the next twenty minutes or so, Windows starts running various ...
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htop show different cpu usage with top
I'm running fedora in virtualbox with 2 cores. a.out is just a simple single-threaded program. I don't know why htop gives 200% CPU.
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How to measure standard compute load of a process
I want to measure the CPU load of an application I am developing. I need to measure the CPU load in a processor and system neutral way. So, for example, if top shows the process uses 277% CPU at peak ...
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PC processor limited to 66%
My Windows computer, when I put a lot of strain on it and open task management, always shows me that the processor is 66% used and never more. This limits me a lot in using the computer, because it is ...
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AutoHotKey on Windows is sometimes not capturing key press
I am using reneo.exe, application downloaded from www.neo-layout.org. Application is programmed using AutoHotKey (AHK). It is capturing all keypresses and sending own output.
It works well, but ...
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Anything animated within a window causes excessive CPU/GPU usage in Desktop Window Manager dwm.exe
I have an issue where if any application is open and is displaying an animation, Desktop Window Manager (dwm) uses an excessive amount of GPU/CPU.
I notice this most when using OBS Streamlabs to ...
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How to log CPU % usage of all processes with timestamps for Windows?
How can I log all activity of my CPU usage of all my processes?
I need text output for example csv: Timestamp, Process name, CPU % usage
I can't find any solutions that meet my requirement.
I used to &...
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High "System" CPU Usage during laptop idle or sleep, found to be a process called "Unknown"
Recently, everytime my laptop goes on modern sleep or is left idle for a bit (screen saver turns on), the fan goes crazy. I suspect my CPU is spiking, and sure enough, I caught a glimpse of "...
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How to check actual physical memory usage in kb's, cpu and system usage in milli seconds for single process in linux? Not in percentage
I am trying to extract actual usage of memory, cpu and system per single process id including all the child processes. I need the information in bytes, milli seconds etc not in percentage. I have ...
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Win11: Task manager's cpu usage discrepancy
The discrepency is between the two views:
The 'Details' view shows a process as taking 11%.
System idle is 80%.
The 'Processes' view shows the same process as taking 70%.
Total cpu usage is 80%.
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Computer cpu usage drops to 0-5% seemingly randomly along with fan speed, causing apps and games to freeze and sometimes crash
technical difficulties here, from my recent searches i thing this is the appropriate place to look for help?. Computer CPU randomly drops to 0% along with the fan suddenly slowing down and going back ...
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What logging will show me my sensitivity to single core vs multi core performance on desktop linux
I want to have an informed opinion about how much I should value single core performance over multi-core for my use on an 8 core desktop.
This is to help me commit to Intel or AMD over the next ...
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VM CPU usage static v. dynamic in Host
I hope this is a general knowledge question on VM-s.
I have set up a vm to use one core out of four in the host using VirtualBox, and i have noticed the host cpu usage is always above 25%, even if the ...
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Something is using 100% of my CPU and task manager as well as resource hacker are not showing anything
So my (amd ryzen 9 5950x) CPU usage is 100% according to task manager, (also hwinfo shows max clocks on effective frequency and games slow down because of CPU usage -using msi afterburner stats- ...
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Get CPU Usage of Specific Program Command Line Windows
Process explorer can show me the CPU % usage of a particular program:
I would like to obtain this number through command line to automatically sample the percentage utilization of a process. It has ...
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Windows 10 High System CPU Usage: hal.dll!<Symbols disabled><itself>
I have a Windows 10 laptop and every time I restart it or power it on from being turned off, the "System" process is always at about 20% CPU usage (the CPU is 4 cores, 8 threads). I followed ...
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CPU clock usage all of a sudden increased by a thousand. Should I be worried
I have had this pc for less then a year. It's a CPU I5 9400F that uses 2900MHz, just yesterday or the day before, as I was doing a lot of stuff to fix the kernel id 41 problem. My CPU all of a sudden ...
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PC overheating at very low CPU usage
My PC has started overheating really quickly while seemingly maintaining low CPU usage. In idle it usually sits around 50-60°C and maintains a temperature around 70-80°C while doing simple things. ...
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How to see *all* most CPU-consuming processes in Linux?
The "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" applet shows my CPU is running at its maximum most of the time :
However, the results of the top command always show that the top processes are around 2%,...
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CPU usage while gaming
If my CPU usage is 100% all the time wile gaming but the temp stay average (around 60°C - 70°C), will it destroy my CPU? My laptop use Athlon silver processor with built in graphic. For now, I only ...
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How can I monitor processes running at a CPU thread of a Hyperthreading CPU?
My system is a network equipment, it uses Intel Hyper Thread processor and it runs Centos Linux. I can see /proc/cpuinfo has 2 processors, I assume they are actually 2 CPU threads, not 2 CPU cores.
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How to test CPU hot plug on Windows?
I tried CPU hot plug testing with Linux using the command lines :
Set online/offline individual core or group cores:
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
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How do I put minimized windows to complete sleep (no CPU usage) on Windows 10?
The title says it all. Basically, I want to stop specific minimized programs in the background from running, for example, a high-CPU program minimized while I work on Firefox. How may I do this on ...
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CPU not reaching turbo frequency under load
I have this cpu (output of cat /proc/cpuinfo)
processor : 15
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 63
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 2
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Remote monitoring on MobaXterm
There is a remote monitoring bar at the bottom of the MobaXterm. That's very cool and it is near real-time.
I wish I could full-screen the CPU utilization chart, but it is not possible. A similar ...
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Do the apps on my TV (which I use as a second monitor) run on my TV's processor or my PC's CPU?
So I use my TV as a second monitor and I was just wondering if running let's say a big game that my PC barely handles on my main monitor and then run a few apps like a browser, task manager and others ...
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What is CPUQuota PerSec and PerPeriod in systemd?
The manpage for systemd.resource-control says nothing about CPUQuotaPerSecUSec and little about CPUQuotaPeriodUSec.
It says nothing either about being set with the value 'infinity', as it is in the ...
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Why is systemd CPUQuota setting not visible in any <show> listings?
If I show the settings of my clamav systemd services, they do not display a CPUQuota setting. They display only CPUQuotaPerSecUSec settings.
._. systemctl show clamav* --all | grep CPUQuota
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Chrome: How to identify which tab does a subframe belong to?
There is some Chrome tab (but I have too many of them opened) that constantly opens a subframe that takes a lot of CPU. I can see that in Chrome's Task Manager - I sort it by CPU, identify it and kill ...
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Why could there be high power usage, while low CPU and GPU usage?
When I use Zoom (under Windows 10 Pro), the coolers of my Precision 5520 with Xeon E3-1505M v6 CPU begin working very hard and never stop. I decreased Zoom's priority in Task Manager to below normal. ...
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ffmpeg: limiting to single CPU core when encoding h264
I need to reduce the framerate of some H.264 videos in the background without maxing out my CPU (on Linux). Somehow -threads 1 has no effect at all:
ffmpeg -threads 1 -i 50fps.mp4 -filter:v fps=30 ...
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My CPU is working on 100% until I open Task manager
I am here because I have a problem. My CPU is working at 100% (while I am idle) until I open Task Manager. When I open Task Manager it shows that my CPU is on 100% and after a half seconds it ...
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My laptop has heavy CPU load when playing SOME games
I just got my hands on a used Alienware 13 R3 with these specs:
QuadCore Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 3400 MHz (34 x 100) , 6MB cache
12157 MB RAM (12 GB)
nVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (Dell) , 6 GB vRam (DirectX ...
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Remote Servers Disk Space Report
I have writtern a script which will take the servers details from a text file and export the Disk space, RAM and CPU utilization details for multiple servers and the script is working a expected. ...
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Windows 11 reduces apps CPU load when showing desktop
I have a Windows 11 Pro Workstation on a MSI motherboard with an I9 chip on it. The workstation should do heavy CPU work during hours / days. I monitor energy consumption.
Everything is working fine ...
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System interrupts 49% cpu usage [duplicate]
how can I check if its a software or hardware problem? I've tried to unplug all USB ports (mouse, keyboard) but nothing happened. does a bad battery can cause this problem ?
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Getting a lot of x44 temp tasks in my Linux Server
There are a lot of tasks as shown in the below image,
Not sure, how and what to do. Due to this there is a 90+% of CPU consumption in htop
Anyone can help me out?
I am using Apache Server with ...
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