What is sucking my CPU?? - Webmaster Forums - Webmaster forum for HTML, PHP, ASP, CSS and more

carby · 09-23-2005, 04:07 AM

I want to display what applications I am running or are running from the command line because preformance is dropping and I keep getting CPU overload, So I would like to find out what is sucking up all the processing power...

cornelis · 09-24-2005, 12:34 PM

What does a TOP command over the shell give you?
You could be hacked or someone is jamming you with a IRC relaying program or using your server to do spam which can eat up a lot of CPU power.

smokie_dabong · 08-04-2006, 05:10 PM

try procesviewer

mitch41 · 09-05-2006, 09:29 AM

That is for windows smokie... you are in the linux category right now

mitch41 · 09-05-2006, 09:30 AM

Sorry i double posted this and now i cant figure out how to delete...

scoob8000 · 09-05-2006, 10:16 PM

As cornelis said,

From a shell prompt run the 'top' command.

Hit 'P' (in caps) to sort by CPU usage %.