I just purchased a used enterprise server while dual Xeon processors and 128GB ram.
While sitting at idle, my CPU is reaching insanely high usage leaving it completely unusable. Any idea what this could be? The fans are definitely working... could it be thermal paste issues?
I don’t want to have to return this thing but it’s acting fucked.
And can you check which process does that?
I would, but it was such a struggle just to open the activity monitor. Took me like 5 minutes. There’s a 10+ second delay between slight mouse movements
I’ll try though and report back
Go to tty1, stop Xorg and use top
you don't have video drivers.
Is this a meme? Or is this a real issue?
imagine, you don't have video drivers and your CPU is doing GPU's work
hm...
what could go wrong, right?
this isn't a meme, I had this issue with ubuntu.
just install video drivers
I think that xorg session uses less CPU so it might work better, at least lets you install drivers
if still same, on login press ctrl+alt+f1
log in
apt search
or
OP said it's a server, it doesn't have a GPU. It's probably not meant to run a desktop environment at all
What drivers do I need? It has integrated ATI graphics.