What the hell is my CPU doing?

[kuber]

I am just sitting here.. I have nothing but Mozilla running and my CPU monitor is going nuts... WTF? It seems to do this about half the time I am on my computer... Is someone messing around via my cable connection?

k

[demian]

Type top to get a list of running processes and their respective cpu usage.

[nalleberg]

The odd thing here is to give you a better answer to that, one would need to know the time of day and wich distro you are using.

Some distros has allready set up some "cron jobs" cron jobs are tasks that the machine do repeatedly without interaction (a good thing to put in cron would be "updatedb" to be run every night).

To find out more abot that, type "man crontab". Then you can find out about some of the processes that is run unattended.

But what is run and at what time, changes from distro to distro, and is fairly easy to update to your own liking.

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