[SOLVED] system monitor versus top: high cpu load!

[kikkegek]

I have been monitoring the "system monitor" through a VNC session. It stayed at about 90-100% for the last few days fomr some reason.

when I then view the processes tab...no process is taking up all the CPU time?

what is going on? what is causing my high, almost 100% constant, cpu load?

[radioz]

Open a terminal on your hda and use the top command to display processes.
It might show you what is going on.

Personally, I prefer to use htop for this purpose. It is still a command-line program, but it provides a better display of activities than top.

This should do it:
sudo yum install htop

[kikkegek]

Open a terminal on your hda and use the top command to display processes.
It might show you what is going on.

Personally, I prefer to use htop for this purpose. It is still a command-line program, but it provides a better display of activities than top.

This should do it:
sudo yum install htop

I'll make some dumps of the output of top and post them here. because I tried and top doesnt seem to show high cpu loads, just the system monitor.

I'll be back

[kikkegek]

he Radioz, installed htop 2nite and think it is an improvement to top.

I made some screendumps...maybe you can help me solve the strange high CPUload:

system_monitor.JPG (125.57 KiB) Viewed 2815 times

system_processes.JPG (248.97 KiB) Viewed 2815 times

htop_dump.JPG (196.06 KiB) Viewed 2815 times

[kikkegek]

okay, killed a couple of ntop processes that were eating cpu-load...but know cpu-load is till at 100%....help!

htop_2.JPG (150.91 KiB) Viewed 2814 times

[kikkegek]

sorry, solved it!

I closed the system monitor and now cpu-load in htop is back to normal...

I guess the graphics are killing my headless server...I'll stick to HTTP and SSH for now and quite the VNC use...

topic closed!

[radioz]

Hey, great solution. I was wondering if it might be the graphical system monitor.

I'm glad you were able to diagnose it and solve your own problem!