On 13 October 2011 07:40, L0ner <sh4dou@...> wrote: > Il giorno 13-10-2011, alle ore 05:24, Patrick Serru <patrick@...> ha scritto: > >> On Tuesday 11 October 2011 23:50:31 Tiago Marques wrote: >>> Did you actually verify that it was that process which was KMail causing >>> the issue by using "top" or ksysguard's process table? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Tiago >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> No, I did not. The real difficulty is that I am not able to cause the problem >> for sur. And because of that, I think that nobody will be "interested" by >> this problem. >> But I do not think that TOP can help with its display continually changing. >> Maybe is it possible to set the order, so that meets a monitoring function? >> The process table, with its filter on the name, might help, provided you have >> an idea of the name of the process involved. >> My machine is a desktop, I do not feel very concerned by this >> over-consumption... >> >> Good luck to everyone, >> Patrick >> >> NB: Today, I first wrote : >> « Worse: today, wanting to try TOP, I have not been able to reproduce the >> problem. In the previous report, there were only the opening and closing >> session TDE between two trials, no complete reboot. I want to conclude that >> this comes from X or Ubuntu (not TDE). X does not seem to work well >> (unexpected and azardeous X configuration changes on reboot) and my ATI card >> is not supported, while the drivers are installed... And I always loose a >> little more confidence in Ubuntu. >> I think it is wiser to forget this thread... » >> But finaly, I saw it again! >> > > Try using htop, and playing with it's options. It's practically top with ncurses interface, which makes it easier to use. I second this! Top is an archaic and terrible tool. htop is functional, fast, easy to view and use.