CPU usage constantly >80% [Resolved]
 

Hi, I have looked everywhere for a solution to my problem but I could not find any.

The problem is that the cpu usage is constantly heavy and the battery life is only a few hours. The apps that seem to be the problem are;
rtcom-call-ui, browserd and xorg.

Solutions I have tried:
* Tried to kill all the processes from xterm. Only effect is that they start up again with a different pid.
* Tried to hard reboot the device (battery out)
* Tried to reset the device orginal state and then a hard reboot again

Other symptoms:
* Even though I have a lot of contacts, the device show that I have none. Maybe related ti the rtcom-call-ui process?


Any one who can shed som light on this? As it stands now, I can not use this phone. And as I am not a Linux guru, I can not fickle around that much with it.


- Dacourt

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

Start xterm, run "top" and tells us what the processes at the top are called. They're ordered by CPU use by default.

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

It could be a corruption of the contacts. You could try to back up and restore the contacts. I assume you can re-sync them if it all goes south?

It's also possible there's a FS corruption from a battery removal or somesuch event. You can't schedule fsck from the terminal (easily) as I understand it, but they do get fixed every 30th mount or similar so in theory they should self fix (if you keep booting).

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

Try to take out or remove your micoSD card if you have any. Then restart your device and see if the problem exist. If it goes away,then the problem you have a bad micoSD card.

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

Hi,

thanks for the replies guys, I figured it out my self last night. I think it had to do with the contact application (osso-addressbook)

I reinstalled the application plus deleted the .osso-abook folder in /home/user

The phone is now in fine shape again.

What I did:

In a terminal window:
* sudo gainroot (I installed rootsh for easy root access, you can get it from the app manager)
* Then I reinstalled the application with this command:
apt-get install --reinstall osso-addressbook
* Deleted the .osso-abook folder (back it up if you need to)
rm -rf /home/user/.osso-abook

I`m not sure if I needed the reinstall, maybe it would have helped to only delete the catalog. Hopefully I do not get the chance to find it out...


Dacourt

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

My N900 encountered the same problem as dacourts' did.
Thanks for providing solution, now the cpu usage is normal and under control.

Thanks again, dacout! :)

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

Omg omg replying after 2 years!

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

So what? At least, unlike you, he had something to say, on topic.

Re: CPU usage constantly >80%
 

Will try to be as much on topic as possible next tym:)
thanx yeast