I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on a HP Pavilion ze4125 laptop (AMD Athlon XP 1600+ [1.4Ghz] with 1 gig of RAM. However, I've experienced the issues described below with other versions of Ubuntu, and other distributions.
<br><br>Current symptoms:<br>Mouse will jerk when moving - moves fine for awhile, then all of a sudden quickly stops for a brief second.<br>CPU usage showing 100% spikes frequently, and I'm only running Top in Terminal, Firefox, and System Monitor
<br>CPU temperature ranges from 40c-60c. Is this normal?<br>Fan on laptop running 99% of the time.<br>Overall slow response.<br><br>I originally thought I may have a HDD issue, but numerous diagnostic utilities state HDD is fine. I now wonder if my CPU is the culprit. I searched the repositories for a diagnostic utility, but did not see any. Can anyone recommend a diagnostic utility for Linux? Any other ideas as what might be the issue?
<br><br>Here is what the first few lines in Top show<br><br>top - 13:35:25 up 1:21, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.49, 0.78<br>Tasks: 102 total, 5 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<br>Cpu(s): 31.6%us, 5.3%sy
, 0.0%ni, 63.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st<br>Mem: 1002092k total, 526172k used, 475920k free, 16712k buffers<br>Swap: 489972k total, 0k used, 489972k free, 310824k cached<br><br> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
<br> 6592 troy 15 0 17888 10m 7432 R 21.2 1.0 0:02.72 metacity <br> 6525 root 16 0 105m 19m 7548 R 15.9 2.0 0:33.10 Xorg
<br> 6783 troy 15 0 210m 70m 22m R 5.3 7.2 2:46.20 firefox-bin <br> 1 root 18 0 2952 1856 532 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.30 init <br>
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