CONKY Indicates CPU Running Continuously at 100% ???

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wl@Bills-antix-17:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: Bills-antix-17 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 
  Distro: antiX-17.4.1_386-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv1000 (EH443UA#ABA) 
  v: Rev 1 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Quanta model: 308F v: 46.11 serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.12 
  date: 09/12/2005 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 25.1 Wh condition: 25.1/88.8 Wh (28%) model: Hewlett-Packard JM-6 
  status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Celeron M bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Dothan 
  rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 2992 
  Speed: 1496 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 1496 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1280x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1e.2 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.2-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: 3000 bus ID: 06:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 3000 bus ID: 06:06.0 
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 4.39 GiB (5.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS721080G9AT00 size: 74.53 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 70.86 GiB used: 4.39 GiB (6.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 141 Uptime: 5h 38m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 370.2 MiB (18.4%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33 
wl@Bills-antix-17:~
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[Member cord]

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you could try top (i prefer htop because of the colors and formatting) in the terminal to see what is using so much cpu.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Or type sudo ps_mem.py in a terminal

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

[Member mroot]

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I have a celeron M system with a slightly slower processor 1396mhz vs your 1496. The laptop was built in 2005. I don’t have Antix installed instead my system uses an LXDE Debian install which is very similar in terms of cpu load and ram usage to Antix.

For my system:

Baseline-only with just Htop open no other programs or applications open
Ram=173mb
cpu load= 2-3%

Only with just Firefox-esr + Htop open
Ram=600-700mb
cpu load=70-100%
some swap usage, it stays below 5mb

So I would second what others have said that it would be good idea to use the top or htop command in your terminal and see what is causing the cpu load. However, if firefox is open 100% cpu load would unfortunately be “normal”. I am afraid that celeron M processors are really no longer fast enough to support modern browsers.

-mroot

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[Moderator BobC]

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If you are running an older machine you probably want to reduce what you are asking it to do so that it can spend its time doing the things you need it to do.

[Member manyroads]

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There are also lower resource browsers available like:
uzbl (quite vi-like)
netsurf
dillo (on antiX)
lynx (whoa terminal based)
surf (from suckless)

Here’s an article on eight minimalist browsers…

https://www.linuxlinks.com/smallfootprintwebbrowsers/

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[Moderator BobC]

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Hi Manyroads,

Thanks for the suggestions. Most of what I do web wise is checking web mail, searching, more searching, and scanning boards like this, copying and pasting answers and snippets of code, or posting, watching youtube videos, and a little shopping, like for books on Amazon or knick knacks on ebay, for example. Maybe a light browser could do everything but the shopping stuff?

I don’t think the text mode ones will do these days. The pages are designed to be seen with the pictures.

I had tried uzbl a year or so ago, and it wasn’t bad, but took a lot more resources than expected.

I tried netsurf today. I had high hopes but failed absolutely miserably. It was surprisingly complex to install, as there were too many different instructions. Maybe I will delete it all and try again from scratch. I hate failing that badly. I tried again from scratch using the quick start method completely, and was able to get it compiled and running, but unfortunately it isn’t able to login here, for example, and that isn’t something I would know how to fix. The wordpress site says its because it needs javascript, but I did enable it, and it still doesn’t work, which is a shame because its only using 40 mb of memory.

Dillo is ok for displaying things that are known to be simple, but not good for too many things.

Lynx, text mode that I tried in the past.

Elinks, another text mode one that I tried in the past.

Surf. I tried that today, and its not bad at all. I only tried the simplest of things. Surf allows me to login and post here. That’s pretty good. It looks like its using about 350 mb to post here.

Midori works. I had tried it a couple years ago and it wasn’t stable, but maybe time has helped it. It also allows me to login and post here and is taking 333 mb to post here.

Arora works. I was able to compile and install it and get it to run. It allows me to post here but is using 893 mb to do it.

Qupzilla doesn’t exist anymore.

Palemoon, someone else suggested, is allowing me to post here and taking 327 mb. I see it has a “sync” option. With as many machines as I have that is a nice option to have.

Seamonkey, another suggestion, working and using 231 mb while posting here.

Waterfox, another suggestion, working and using 710 mb while posting here

Vivaldi, another suggestion, working and using over 800 mb (too many to add up exactly) while posting this.

Falkon wanted me to install 77 packages with over 200 mb, so I didn’t try that one.

Otter-browser from Sparkylinux is using 375 mb while posting this.

Basillisk is working and is using 282 mb while posting this

Yes, the big browsers just Eat the CPU’s and memory alive, especially on older machines.

I submitted a bug report with Netsurf since it almost worked and was so efficient memory wise, and will let you know if they get back to me on it.

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[Member mroot]

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Yes the current situation is all the modern full featured browsers need a fairly fast cpu and a fair amount of memory. While Antix is light and fast, if your using one of these browsers you still need a fair amount of memory and a good cpu. There are two good threads dealing with the issues that come up around this particular problem.

Discussion about default browser for Antix https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/default-browser/

Contains a lot of discussion about which default browser Antix should use. People provide cpu load and ram measurements for many different browsers. Some talk about most of the mid weight browers don’t receive general and security updates any more. Also info about minimalist browsers.

Web browsers people use in Antix https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/web-browsers/

Similar thread more focused on individual user choices.

For most people the answer is to use the default browser which is firefox but you need hardware that can support it. I don’t think many people will accept the limited functionality of a minimalist browser any more.

-mroot

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