By using top or htop you can find out what processes are using your resources and in what ammount. Another way to do this is by launching the following command: ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -r -k1 | more This will output something like 6.5  6077 user  pidgin 6.5  5535 root     /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -br -audit… Read More »