Hi, I am new to the linux. I have a problem, CPU usage over 95% and my pc runs very slow. I use Ubuntu 8.04. This is the result with command 'Top' Tasks: 595 total, 62 running, 533 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 96.0%us, 3.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.8%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3628740k total, 3504892k used, 123848k free, 11736k buffers Swap: 4883752k total, 39112k used, 4844640k free, 3200912k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5093 root 20 0 1928 656 296 R 4 0.0 3:59.68 gzip 5148 root 20 0 1928 660 296 R 4 0.0 3:56.75 gzip 5160 root 20 0 1928 660 296 R 4 0.0 3:55.58 gzip 1927 root 20 0 1928 664 296 R 3 0.0 5:53.92 gzip 1928 root 20 0 1928 664 296 R 3 0.0 5:54.36 gzip 1929 root 20 0 1928 664 296 R 3 0.0 5:53.78 gzip 2007 root 20 0 1928 660 296 R 3 0.0 5:41.70 gzip 2130 root 20 0 1928 668 296 R 3 0.0 5:22.45 gzip 2382 root 20 0 1928 664 296 R 3 0.0 5:00.29 gzip 4175 root 20 0 1928 664 296 R 3 0.0 4:35.46 gzip 4176 root 20 0 1928 660 296 R 3 0.0 4:34.85 gzip 4371 root 20 0 1928 660 296 R 3 0.0 4:24.54 gzip 4479 root 20 0 1928 660 296 R 3 0.0 4:17.98 gzip Please help me to resolve this problem... Thanks, Tristan