(04:17:56 PM) Daryl: My processor is at 50% use (04:17:58 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Sorry, m mistake. (04:18:00 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Interesting. (04:18:04 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Use top (04:18:05 PM) Daryl: I coul check out why in the System Monitor (04:18:10 PM) Daryl: But whenever I open it up (04:18:10 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: That works too. (04:18:12 PM) Daryl: The process stops (04:18:14 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Ah. (04:18:16 PM) Daryl: Without fail, every time! (04:18:18 PM) Daryl: Let's try.... (04:18:19 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: try top? (04:18:23 PM) Daryl: top? (04:18:24 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: top is pretty cool (04:18:28 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It's a program (04:18:36 PM) Daryl: =O It's.... It's Firefox! (04:18:38 PM) Daryl: D= (04:18:47 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Firefox is a pretty heavy app. (04:18:58 PM) Daryl: But it is using an entire core. (04:19:00 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It always uses more memory and CPU than any other program that I have. (04:19:10 PM) Daryl: It would be 100% had I had a single core processor. (04:19:12 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Typical Firefox *shrug* (04:19:18 PM) Daryl: Not typical (04:19:21 PM) Daryl: An error has occurred (04:19:30 PM) Daryl: Even with Firefox I generally average almost nothing on the CPU Monitor (04:19:32 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: What sort. (04:19:36 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Interesting. (04:19:45 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Well, try pkill -9 firefox (04:19:56 PM) Daryl: I just forced a quit (04:20:00 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Then just restart it and see if the CPU goes down. (04:20:04 PM) Daryl: I actually tried a safe quit but it wouldn't go on its own. (04:20:14 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: pkill -9 firefox tends to be reliable. (04:20:22 PM) Daryl: So does Force Quit. (04:20:23 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It kills every process related to firefox (04:20:31 PM) Daryl: And I don't need to open up a terminal to use that, either. (04:20:43 PM) Daryl: D= It's happening again (04:20:48 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Interesting. (04:21:08 PM) Daryl: pkilled (04:21:29 PM) Daryl: Maybe it has something to do with the tabs I'm on.... (04:21:38 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: That might be true. (04:21:52 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: If you are running things like Youtube, or pages that use a lot of memory, that can be a problem. (04:22:01 PM) Daryl: Just 4 Digg.com pages (04:22:31 PM) Daryl: Oh my. (04:22:35 PM) Daryl: I think I see (04:22:47 PM) Daryl: This one is loading a ton of comments (04:22:53 PM) Daryl: Let's see if it stops when it is finished. (04:26:57 PM) Daryl: So yeah, it's back to normal (04:27:06 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: :D (04:27:09 PM) Daryl: :D (04:27:31 PM) Daryl: My average load for the last 1 minute is 0.12% (04:27:39 PM) Daryl: Or is that 12%? (04:28:03 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: 12% sounds more reasonable. (04:28:13 PM) Daryl: But now it's up to .25 (04:28:17 PM) Daryl: Which it certainly is not (04:28:26 PM) Daryl: I'll run a really CPU intensive program and see what happens (04:29:19 PM) Daryl: Alright (04:29:21 PM) Daryl: I'm at 100% now (04:29:26 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: God... I hate when Sudoku is easy. (04:29:30 PM) Daryl: :( (04:29:33 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Try multiple sessions of yes. (04:29:34 PM) Daryl: Yeah (04:29:36 PM) Daryl: It's at 1.04 now (04:29:38 PM) Daryl: And rising (04:29:39 PM) Daryl: 1.11 (04:29:44 PM) Daryl: Still, though... (04:29:49 PM) Daryl: 1.25 (04:29:51 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Or try to make a forkbomb. (04:29:54 PM) Daryl: ? (04:30:04 PM) Daryl: 100% of the CPU is running, I don't see how I could better it (04:30:11 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It basically is a function that can't be killed, because it constantly calls itself. (04:30:19 PM) Daryl: =( (04:30:19 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: And eventually it will deplete your CPU Ram. (04:30:27 PM) Daryl: I don't get these load averages. (04:30:35 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Pretty much the most intensive thing you can do to your computer. (04:30:36 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Hold on. (04:30:40 PM) Daryl: Okay. (04:30:49 PM) Daryl: It looks like it is approaching two... (04:31:03 PM) Daryl: Nope, 2.02. (04:31:05 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: :(){ :|:& };: (04:31:13 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Use this code in a terminal. (04:31:19 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: But it will crash your computer. (04:31:27 PM) Daryl: Why would I want to do that? (04:31:34 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Because it is RAM intensive. (04:31:41 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: And that is what you seem to be wanting to do. (04:31:50 PM) Daryl: I am trying to discover what a Load Average is (04:32:07 PM) Daryl: I could just Google, but this is funner. (04:32:22 PM) Daryl: I'm running 4 CPU benchmarks concurrently, and my average for the last 1 minute is 3.54 and rising. (04:32:28 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Damn. (04:32:39 PM) Daryl: What is your load average for the last minute? (04:32:51 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: I don't actually know. (04:32:53 PM) Daryl: It's above the Processes on the Process tab of the System Monitor (04:33:06 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: I don't use any of that. (04:33:14 PM) Daryl: But do you have it? (04:33:23 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Oh wait, I have it now. (04:33:24 PM) Daryl: Or does Conky display it? (04:33:25 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: 3.23 (04:33:27 PM) Daryl: Nice (04:33:33 PM) Daryl: Mine's up to 4.39 (04:33:36 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It was on top (04:33:37 PM) Daryl: Rising much faster now (04:33:46 PM) Daryl: I think mine averages at around .1. (04:33:52 PM) Daryl: 4.89 (04:33:54 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: System monitors tend to just be top frontends (04:34:13 PM) Daryl: So do you have any idea what this number means? (04:34:19 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Nope. (04:34:42 PM) Daryl: 4.95 (04:34:44 PM) Daryl: 5.03 (04:34:48 PM) Daryl: I should just Google it. (04:34:50 PM) Daryl: 5.19 (04:35:13 PM) Daryl: Despite the 100% CPU use, my computer isn't actually running slow. (04:35:39 PM) Daryl: Alright (04:35:44 PM) Daryl: It's getting too hot to hold, so I'll stop it. (04:36:11 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: For example, a load average of "3.73 7.98 0.50" on a single-CPU system can be interpreted as: during the last minute, the CPU was overloaded by 273% (1 CPU with 3.73 runnable processes, so that 2.73 processes were waiting for their turn) the CPU was only busy half of the time over the last fifteen minutes This means that this CPU could have handled all of the work scheduled for the last minute if it were 3.73 times as fast, or if there were 4 (3.73 rounded up) times as many CPUs, but that over the last fifteen minutes it was twice as fast as necessary to prevent runnable processes from waiting their turn. Conversely, in a system with four CPUs, a load average of 3.73 would indicate that there were, on average, 3.73 processes ready to run, and each one could be scheduled into a CPU. (04:36:34 PM) Daryl: Mine maxed out at 5.5 (04:37:43 PM) Daryl: So I am overloading my CPU when it goes above 1. (04:37:48 PM) Daryl: I'm dropping rapidly, atleast. (04:37:49 PM) Daryl: 1.42 (04:37:50 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Yeah. (04:37:52 PM) Daryl: 1.31 (04:38:03 PM) Daryl: 1.2 (04:38:12 PM) Daryl: What are you doing to have been at 3.53? (04:38:19 PM) Daryl: 3.23* (04:38:21 PM) Daryl: .86 (04:38:24 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Same stuff I always amm. (04:38:26 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: -m (04:38:29 PM) Daryl: Which is what? (04:38:32 PM) Daryl: .73 (04:38:35 PM) Daryl: .67 (04:39:00 PM) Daryl: The only thing using more than 1% of the CPU is the Gnome System Monitor (04:39:10 PM) Daryl: And, on occasion, compiz.real (04:39:40 PM) Daryl: .39 (04:40:25 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Right now, Gaim, ktorrent, Google Gagdets (clock, rss feed, calculator, wikipedia search, sudoku game), a urxvt terminal, weechat-curses, kmplot, an xfce4-terminal with multiple tabs, conky, firefox, also an mplayer movie (04:40:43 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Along with a bunch of other background processes, which don't account for much. (04:40:44 PM) Daryl: Are you running slowly? (04:40:48 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Not really. (04:40:55 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It is running pretty quickly. (04:40:57 PM) Daryl: Nice (04:41:07 PM) Daryl: I guess the Load Average doesn't say much about your speed (04:41:14 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Pretty much. (04:41:19 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It is relative to the processor. (04:41:19 PM) Daryl: .13 (04:41:24 PM) Daryl: .12 (04:41:28 PM) Daryl: .11 (04:41:36 PM) Daryl: Where will it stop? :o (04:41:36 PM) Daryl: .1 (04:41:40 PM) Daryl: .09 (04:41:40 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: omg (04:41:44 PM) Daryl: .08 (04:41:45 PM) Daryl: =O (04:41:53 PM) Daryl: .07! (04:41:55 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: It's like New Year's Eve (04:42:00 PM) Daryl: .06!!! (04:42:12 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: :o :o :o :o (04:42:13 PM) Daryl: .05!!! (04:42:26 PM) Daryl: POINT ZERO FOUR! (04:42:30 PM) Daryl: .12. (04:42:42 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o (04:42:43 PM) Daryl: :( (04:42:48 PM) Daryl: .09! (04:42:49 PM) Daryl: .08! (04:42:55 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: D: (04:42:59 PM) Daryl: .07! (04:43:04 PM) Daryl: .06! (04:43:15 PM) Daryl: .05! (04:43:16 PM) Daryl: =O (04:43:24 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: :o :o :o :o (04:43:30 PM) Daryl: .04!!!!! (04:43:45 PM) Daryl: .03, a new record! 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(04:44:31 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: *89% (04:44:38 PM) Daryl: I just closed a bunch of stuff! (04:44:39 PM) Daryl: .34 (04:44:44 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: OMGwut (04:44:47 PM) Daryl: .31 (04:44:49 PM) Daryl: .29 (04:44:52 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: :o (04:44:53 PM) Daryl: .27 (04:44:58 PM) Daryl: .000000000000000000001 (04:45:00 PM) Daryl: .24* (04:45:01 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: wut (04:45:04 PM) Daryl: .22 (04:45:10 PM) Daryl: .29 >_> (04:45:14 PM) Daryl: .26 (04:45:18 PM) Daryl: This is amusing (04:45:25 PM) Daryl: .3... (04:45:27 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: This is more fun than watching laundry clean itself. (04:45:32 PM) Daryl: Yes. (04:45:35 PM) Daryl: I don't get it, though. (04:45:44 PM) Daryl: My actual processor use is not going above 3%. (04:46:28 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Well, it might have to do with time as well. (04:46:40 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Like the remnants of your previous processes being added into the average. (04:46:51 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: But still, I can't see how that would account for it. (04:46:55 PM) Daryl: =/ (04:47:06 PM) Daryl: Perhaps large spikes that are too brief to notice (04:47:16 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: Perhaps (04:47:48 PM) Daryl: Hmm... (04:47:55 PM) Daryl: Gnome System Monitor is now using 15%... (04:47:57 PM) Daryl: >_> (04:48:05 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: pkill that sumbitch (04:48:13 PM) Daryl: But it's the thing that tells me the load average! (04:48:27 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: use uptime, noob (04:48:32 PM) Daryl: :( (04:48:36 PM) ***☆´=^ω^=`☆ hugs Daryl (04:48:40 PM) Daryl: :'( (04:48:51 PM) ***☆´=^ω^=`☆ gives Daryl a lollipop (04:48:54 PM) Daryl: :D (04:49:00 PM) ☆´=^ω^=`☆: I love you Daryl (04:49:08 PM) Daryl: ^^