Two cpus... not?

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#1

Well I have just recently installed Suse and was excited about how fast I was able to get multiple monitors working (ubuntu wasn’t working for me). Now I have been using it for a few days and find that things are randomly freezing and not opening. I believe that it could have something to do with the system monitor saying that I have two cpu’s. To clear this up, I have a p4 3.0ghz LGA 775, and possibly most importantly 1 core. Not only does it show two cpus but it shows them both as active(by the way this image was taken while only on firefox, yet look at the useage):

http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/7485/picci9.jpg

Any help on this would be much appreciated, thanks.

#2

this looks like a “hyperthreading” CPU.
Hyper-threading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

#3

Now I feel a bit dumb, yes it is hyperthreading, so that does explain the two cpus, however that doesn’t explain such high usage and the common crashes. Thanks for explaining that though,

#4

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Probably hyperthreading… all OS’s do this. To disable go into your
BIOS and disable hyperthreading.

Good luck.

leelguy wrote:
| Well I have just recently installed Suse and was excited about how fast
| I was able to get multiple monitors working (ubuntu wasn’t working for
| me). Now I have been using it for a few days and find that things are
| randomly freezing and not opening. I believe that it could have
| something to do with the system monitor saying that I have two cpu’s.
| To clear this up, I have a p4 3.0ghz LGA 775, and possibly most
| importantly 1 core. Not only does it show two cpus but it shows them
| both as active(by the way this image was taken while only on firefox,
| yet look at the useage):
|
| [image: http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/7485/picci9.jpg]
|
| Any help on this would be much appreciated, thanks.
|
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#5

Are you saying that hyperthreading is the cause of the crashes, or just the reason for 2 cpus?

UPDATE: i turned off HT and that was the reason for 2 cpus, however right now i have a constant cpu useage of 50%+ with only firefox open so that did not fix lag or crashes.

#6

Heres an example of how my cpu is acting:
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/8564/screenshotxf3.jpg
the straight line in the beginning is just firefox open with nothing else happening, when it starts to go up, that was me scrolling the page, it goes from 30% up to 100% from just scrolling?

#7

open a terminal, execute “top” and send us the output.

Is beagle installed?

#8

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2620/screenshotyu2.jpg

From what I can find Beagle isnt installed.

#9

> From what I can find Beagle isnt installed.

beagle is installed by default…or did you not?

open to a terminal and type:

top -n1

press reply and then copy the output and paste it in your reply…

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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark

#10

top - 16:45:26 up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 0.81, 0.64, 0.27
Tasks: 119 total, 1 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 16.4%us, 6.3%sy, 1.0%ni, 47.1%id, 28.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1034616k total, 561400k used, 473216k free, 21232k buffers
Swap: 1558264k total, 0k used, 1558264k free, 294840k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 20 0 772 300 256 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.92 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 events/0
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
12 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kondemand/0
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
15 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
16 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
17 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused

I’d guess that beagle is installed if it is by default, To find it I went to a search application and typed in beagle… is that not the way to do it? Anyway why is it important if beagle is installed?

#11

Here’s a quick way to see if beagle is running. From a terminal window, type ps -ef | grep beagle

Beagle may not be showing up in the top process list at the time you took your screenshots, but it may still be running in the background.

#12

This is what comes from the above:

sam 3895 1 1 14:23 ? 00:00:01 beagled /usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemon.exe --replace --bg
sam 4155 1 5 14:24 ? 00:00:01 beagled-helper /usr/lib/beagle/IndexHelper.exe
sam 4175 4145 0 14:25 pts/1 00:00:00 grep beagle

#13

yes, beagle IS running…it did not show up in top because it was not
actually using cpu cycles at the instant you ran top…

i asked (as did others) about beagle because it is a KNOWN cause of
system freezes (has nothing to do with your two cpu question)…

i bet if you go to YaST and uninstall beagle you will be free from these
freezes…but, if you wish you are encouraged to use the advanced seach
function of these fora to look for all instances of beagle and/or freeze
and you will find that that dog is not a friendly hound.

–
DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark