How to Fix High CPU Usage in Linux

High CPU usage is a problem that can hit you on any operating system - Linux, macOS or Windows. Today, we'll be focusing on detecting and fixing high CPU usage on Linux specifically (applies to Mint, Ubuntu and other main distros), offering a bunch of tips that should help you out

[motoryzen]

For those who don't want a terminal thing to deal with and prefer a GUI option. ...Gnome-system-monitor is your friend. It's more closely related to Windows Task manager in a context.

(shrugs)

[dmitrykrasnapolsky]

a poke in the dark wont help people with high cpu and over heating laptops your video was helpful only to you

[zaxwrld]

mine says cinnamon lol
that's not good....

[cole]

Im using brave browser and I don't know if its using my GPU for graphics. How can I check and fix the issue?

[rasulali]

Installing linux-image-liquorix-amd64 now.. Hopefully it'll give some positive output. Actually got this same problem on windows 10 too. Thought switching on linux distr will fix everything for me but unfortunately it didnt. And yeah, thanks for the video

[Supercraft]

hello is there any way to force a process running just to use the second core, not the first of the cpu

[lemler]

had to enable chrome hardware acceleration. when watching youtube my cpu shot up to 75%. after enabling hardware acceleration it stays around 15% ^^

[deadlinerhorus]

if you just would come to the point, it would be so easy. The main culprit is, that most distros do install snap packages for Firefox and others. THAT`S what impacts the cpu usage, because the operating system has to unpack the snaps prior to use a naked binary! Everything else stated above is kind of tinkering with the wrong cause!

[josephmills]

My cpu is maxed out and I have less than 1g of ram being used and no swap being used. Idk wtf it’s getting annoying

I’m using Garuda Linux

[archygrey]

My problem is that it is Kworker taking up 30% of my cpu at idle, but i don't know what it is within kworker taking up the space

[murraydawson]

I've found the current WPS Office Writer max's out my 4-core Mint system