Re: Finding what's using the CPU

Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and every so often something starts running which
uses a significant amount of CPU and network access. I can't work out
what it is because it's "niced" and top excludes nice when sorting apps
by CPU usage, and I can't find a way to make it include nice. Can anyone
recommend a similar tool to top which isn't so helpful to potential
malware?

Top can be told to sort based on any field...
You could try sorting the nice field...

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