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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="process-identify-hog">
+ <info>
+ <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#processes-tasks" group="processes-tasks" />
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Phil Bull</name>
+ <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2011</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Michael Hill</name>
+ <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
+ <years>2011, 2014</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <desc>Sort the list of processes by <gui>% CPU</gui> to see which
+ application is using up the computer's resources.</desc>
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Which program is making the computer run slowly?</title>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull@gmail.com">Phil Bull</cite>
+ <p>Explain how the System Monitor can be used to find
+ misbehaving/resource-hogging processes. (A lot of process use 100% CPU or
+ similar if they hang, for example.)</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <p>A program that is using more than its share of the CPU may slow down the
+ whole computer. To find which process could be doing this:</p>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click the <gui>Processes</gui> tab.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Click the <gui>% CPU</gui> column header to sort the processes
+ according to CPU use.</p>
+ <note>
+ <p>The arrow in the column header shows the sort direction; click again
+ to reverse it. The arrow should point up.</p>
+ </note>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+
+ <p>The processes at the top of the list are using the highest percentage CPU.
+ Once you identify which one might be using more resources than it should, you
+ can decide whether to close the program itself, or close other programs to
+ try to reduce the CPU load.</p>
+
+ <note style = "tip">
+ <p>A process that has hung or crashed might use 100% CPU. If this happens
+ you may need to <link xref="process-kill">kill</link> the process.</p>
+ </note>
+
+</page>