Hello, I have a 64 bit six core AMD phenom 2 specifically the 1075T, Four gb of ram, 2gb swap 4 identical wd sata one drives in raid zero totaling out @ 980 GB
And I have had my suse install work flawlessly, with no crashes or anything of
the sort it works and all but I have noticed something odd, when I am browsing or surfing, one out of my six cores is always maxed out at full utilization or @ 100% during the whole time I am using a web browser and scrolling can be either slow or rather jittery at times( mainly twitter) regardless of browser brand or type, but I found the Google branded chrome works best in this case…
Plus also why when you have more than a few (Five tabs at most) do most web browsers use so much ram?
Attached below is a link to an image of my system monitor showing one core being maxed out
The symptoms sound familiar. I had something similar happen back in 2007. It was a video driver problem. As best I can tell, the screen was been repeatedly repainted during scrolling, because the video driver didn’t know a better way. I installed the vendor’s driver, which solved the problem. Later versions of opensuse worked fine for me (with the standard linux drivers).
My guess is that you are having a problem with your video configuration and/or video driver.
kert, I don’t think it’s a video driver issue as it’s the standard vendor based one (nvidia for the newer 500 series cards that I installed, using the one click
yast method from the official suse wiki on this site)
It really doesn’t affect performance, usability unless I put too much load on it, was just wondering if this a normal thing( I sure don’t think it is normal @ all)
and I am mainly concerned if this will have any possible negative long term effects on my machine
robin_listas\carlos
I was unsuccessful at get the copy/paste Function to work in the Terminal, so, I am submitting another screenshot
system monitor reports as one core being fully utilized while the command “Top” states the same core only being used around the 70% mark
opera crashed since I posted about the issue, I won’t be using it anymore, due to it’s instability it causes, now my main concern is that if using any certain
browser even google chrome is normal for it to stress one processor core alone and not others
EDIT: I forgot to mention that this was always a problem with opera, I used to like opera because it’s UI , I felt in my taste, I could determine and
organize my browser tabs more easier as you could have a little preview of what each tab contained,by seeing a small downsized snapshot of
webpage when you hovered the mouse cursor over the specific tab, plus it was a full oblong tab with a full name, not just a slither like google gets, if you open up alot of tabs , like I often do at times, but I think from my knowledge of programming, maybe they developed it rather sloppy like and have some memory leaks?
And no, I have not updated this install, since the beginning of this month, but I appreciate you asking .
As you can see Opera is the first process listed, but I can’t get it to terminate thru normal methods as one, it’s no longer persent in the gui WM and two:
Does not respond to 9:Sig Kill or other commonly used Termination and exit signals
Yes I am very able to reboot and probably should… I intend on going to bed soon, as it is nearly midnight here, just one hour , five minutes from such
Tell me is leaving your computer on constantly a very bad idea? like will it deteriorate performance\ reliability at all?
Leaving it on is normal.
But sometimes a reboot is inevitable. Especially in a Desktop type user situation.
Servers may run for weeks or months and never reboot.
Ok , I have just rebooted and my cores seem fine now, I think opera just messed it up… i should really stop being lazy and think before posting …troubleshooting is not that hard… slaps self
and by the way it was the latest opera 11.51 from the offical suse repo, using the software manager…
Currently I am installing some security updates as advised by a pop-up window that has a life saver\lifeguard picture thing in the box
On 10/17/2011 06:06 AM, Xrter wrote:
> Here is the new TOP:
> ‘CPU Load Image # 3.’ (http://imagebin.org/179399)
>
> As you can see Opera is the first process listed, but I can’t get it to
> terminate thru normal methods as one, it’s no longer persent in the gui
> WM and two:
> Does not respond to 9:Sig Kill or other commonly used Termination and
> exit signals
if you face that situation again: while viewing in top, just press “k”
and a new line will appear where the green cursor is in your image
(linked about) asking “PID to kill:” where you then type in the PID
(Process ID) of the errant program and press enter (in the case of your
image that would be 18519)…then top will ask for verification “Kill
PID 18519 with signal [15]:” type in “y” (without the quotes), press
enter and Opera (or whatever should surely die)…it may take a few
seconds…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
i’m not sure, but i think a ‘gentle’ top kill (via SIGTERM 15) might
result in an orderly termination of the process and avoid the more
ruthless SIGKILL 9 made zombie…
anyway, zombies (by definition) are not live processes, so can’t be
killed…but a live errant Opera process (as seen in top, for example)
might be able to be terminated smoothly and not result in a zombie no
longer responding to commands… [technically it will respond to kernel
commands, if it ever decides to peek out of its uninterruptible sleep]
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
On 2011-10-17 06:06, Xrter wrote:
>
> I actually have 37 tabs open but usually I have much more loaded,32 is
> minimal for me
>
> Here is the new TOP:
> ‘CPU Load Image # 3.’ (http://imagebin.org/179399)
I see you solved your issue by rebooting. Did you, perchance, install
something recently, before this happened?
Another thing: the two “top” posts you made show that you have something(s)
eating memory.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
