Over 95% CPU Utilization

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by mikaeltristan, May 31, 2012.

  1. mikaeltristan

    mikaeltristan New Member

    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
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Have you tried to kill all those gzip processes?
     

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