this oldskooler prefers htop, and finds no significant difference between results reported by htop and top other than a more detailed and more versatile presentation. if compiz is sucking all the CPU it can, either top or htop will make that clear. andrew already clearly outlined how the *top report can be quite different from ps. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160904/561d0b15/attachment.html>