high resource usage!! Argh! too much pressure@!!

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#1

Hello,

I have a picture of my system monitor that shows 80% cpu usage but none of the processes show they are responsible. How can this be? What’s going on here?? I have processes from “all users” visible … why don’t the loads show up? Do I have a linux virus of all things?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/5711326642_59f4514db1_b.jpg

Any ideas?? As you can see from the image, it’s sorted by load, so all the processes using the processor should show up, but they don’t!!

Thanks!

#2

this is 11.4 btw. and confirmed with top.

#3

So it went away after a logout, but isn’t this creepy? idk, don’t ya’ll get freaked out when something like this happens?

#4

I had something similar happen to me the other day. I couldn’t trace it, and finally reboot to kill it. The thought of a rootkit or trojan crossed my mind, but it hasn’t happened since and I’m willing to write it off.

#5

Yea I’ll forget about it too. Hasn’t happened again today. Although I’ve recently stumbled upon a screenshot I took months ago where this has happen in the past. oh well.

Thanks for your reply.