Idle CPU Performance

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Hi everyone!

I just migrated from mandriva 10.2 to opensuse 11.3 and i totally love it! I just got a little performance issue concerning my cpu. I got a “Intel core 2 Cpu 6600 @ 2.40 Ghz” and when I’m “idle” it run at 8-15%.

When i was on mandriva (with compiz activated) and even on vista (after a few tweaks) it was never more than 1-3%. What i want to know is, is it normal? I hope not… And what can i do to ameliorate the performance? I already disable some services that was useless for me.

Thank you in advance!

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run a system monitor (top, gnome-system-monitor, ksysguard, qps or some other monitor) to see what process is using the cpu

if you turn of composting does idle cpu go to 0->1%

it helps if you provide bit more info Gnome? KDE?

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First, what’s taking the processor’s time? Check w/something like top:

top -d1

Good luck.

On 12/28/2010 01:06 PM, Jon9000 wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I just migrated from mandriva 10.2 to opensuse 11.3 and i totally love
> it! I just got a little performance issue concerning my cpu. I got a
> “Intel core 2 Cpu 6600 @ 2.40 Ghz” and when I’m “idle” it run at
> 14-20%.
>
> When i was on mandriva (with compiz activated) and even on vista (after
> a few tweaks) it was never more than 3-6%. What i want to know is, is it
> normal? I hope not… And what can i do to ameliorate the performance? I
> already disable some services that was useless for me.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
>
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lol sorry i forgot this post after i took care of the problem. It was simply an application running in background, now everything is fine.
Thank you all for your answers i’ll make sure to do some more research before posting next time :stuck_out_tongue:

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Hi, welcome here.

Research before you post is good. But posting is even better. That way we continue building a human cloud of knowledge :smiley: