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Is there a way to see each services CPU percentage use?
My CPU only recently has been at 100% and suspect that it may be a service.
I usually have tabs open showing the different services that I want to keep an eye on including the StartOS monitor page itself, will this cause higher CPU usage?
Thank you!
Hi Baguette,
What do you mean by tabs open? Are you talking about your client device (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS device)?
Or have you connected a monitor to a server? A 100% CPU usage would suggest something is amiss. If you made the mistake of treating a home server as a PC and you’re running it what we call “kiosk mode”, then extensive use of the cut down Firefox might lead to higher resource use… but it’s unlikely to be heavy on just the processor.
To work out what’s going on, you’d need to switch over to your client device, set up SSH (Start9 | Using SSH) then you’ll be able to log in and run standard linux commands. htop for example.
Hey Stu, thanks for the help.
Using Librewolf on my Linux desktop, I’m just at the .local address to access my services so I have several tabs open to show them.
My StartOS is built on a mini PC with 32Gb ram and 4TB SSD.
I did finally do a restart and it fixed the CPU usage for now, so it’s not the tabs but I would still like to see each services CPU usage just to see if it’s any one in particular that is causing an issue if it happens again.
I’ll follow the SSH link you gave and move forward from there, if you have any other suggestions, I appreciate it!
If it happens again before you finish setting up SSH (which is EASY on Linux) and could also just stop each service one by one to work out which it is. Then check the logs for that service to see what’s going wrong.
Excellent.
So far so good but I’ll keep an eye on it.
Thanks again!