when watching the system monitor I’ve noticed when opening a program the cpu spikes to 100% until the program is open. this also happens when loading a web page or watching a video.
I have compiz off so thats not the problem
and despite the spikes I can open several programs at once without the computer locking up and load ALOT of pages in sperate tabs in firefox without a problem
whats the problem here?
chuckkilly wrote:
> when watching the system monitor I’ve noticed when opening a program the
> cpu spikes to 100% until the program is open. this also happens when
> loading a web page or watching a video.
>
> I have compiz off so thats not the problem
>
> and despite the spikes I can open several programs at once without the
> computer locking up and load ALOT of pages in sperate tabs in firefox
> without a problem
>
> whats the problem here?
Why do you think that is a problem? When you load a program, there are
a lot of things that need to be done. One of these is loading all the
shared libraries if not already loaded. As long as the computer is
responsive, this behavior is normal. If it bothers you, turn off the
system monitor.
Larry
I just thought it was strange that that much of the cpu is being used when watching a video or loading a webpage
I just figured that behavior like that wasn’t typical so it must be something wrong
100% is a lot, but increase in CPU load is pretty standard when starting things up. You can alleviate this somwehat with a faster/different disk set-up. OTOH, most of us just live with it.
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Yeah… the alternative is that you DON’T use 100% and things load
more-slowly… if nothing else this seems to suggest your disk
subsystem is performing nicely since it can load files quickly-enough to
give your CPU something to do. Anyway, not a problem at all… your
CPU is responding to requests quickly and with vigor… be happy.
Good luck.
incognito9 wrote:
> 100% is a lot, but increase in CPU load is pretty standard when
> starting things up. You can alleviate this somwehat with a
> faster/different disk set-up. OTOH, most of us just live with it.
>
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I agree. I think this is normal behavior.