High CPU Usuage while idle

[pelle1101]

I might be new to the FreeNas world, but I do not understand why I am literally doing nothing, and have 200% cpu usage. I have some movies on the Harddrive, but that is it.

 

[Stephens]

You want to look up the "ps" and "top" console commands.

 

[JaimieV]

Pelle, it's just how FreeBSD represents idle time - as an imaginary process that takes up all the CPU time not being used by real processes.

Stephens, as far as I can see the FreeBSD manpage doesn't note this, so I guess it's a super sekrit unwritten rule thing... 'top' is (as usual) more useful.

 

[pelle1101]

Well that's interesting to know. The only reason why I checked this process though was because as soon as I turn the PC on, the CPU fans kick on. I checked the temps of my cpu, and it is at 70 degrees C. I really don't want to say it is hardware causing the high temps only because they weren't that high with Windows installed.

 

[titan_rw]

Windows reports idle time the exact same way. Only it calls the 'process', "System Idle Process" instead of [idle].

I almost always use "top -SH" to see system processes, including [idle].