On 11/11/2020 02:51 PM, Michael via tde-users wrote:
Are you sure you're getting 30% CPU usage and not 0.3% CPU usage? Top’s output is %CPU not an integer value.
Well it would actually be 15% of the total CPU since it's a dual core. But, yes, top consistently shows it at about 30% +/- 1 or so.
It's a Core Duo, not a Core 2 Duo. Related, but only 32-bit.
You said you had a stock install of MX/TDE, what was Conky showing for total CPU usage?
Almost stock -- I usually turn Conky off because a monitor you can only see when you can see the desktop doesn't seem very practical, and it takes a lot more CPU and memory than top running in a console.
At this point the plan is, when I next get a chance at that machine, I'll try a couple of the things Mike Bird suggested. If I can't find a fix pretty fast, I'm thinking I may switch it to Antix. But I'll set up Antix with TDE on another machine and make a live ISO first so I can try it out before installing it.