Huge CPU usage?

[ps2cho]

top - 00:31:07 up 4 days, 3:28, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 1.97
Tasks: 53 total, 3 running, 50 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 65.8% us, 34.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 506708k total, 497176k used, 9532k free, 117560k buffers
Swap: 506512k total, 2484k used, 504028k free, 176540k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4606 ps2cho 25 0 3600 2336 1108 R 49.9 0.5 108:16.92 bash
4669 ps2cho 25 0 89076 78m 6760 R 49.9 15.9 232:33.31 hlds_amd
1 root 16 0 1452 484 428 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.89 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.50 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:51.39 events/0
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.48 khelper
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
19 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
89 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.65 kblockd/0
170 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.32 pdflush
171 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.45 pdflush
173 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
102 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
172 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.11 kswapd0
764 root 18 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
814 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0

Look at the underlined part...I understand that HLDS In linux has a memory leak but what is bash and why is it taking up 50% of CPU power?

 

[MRD]

bash is the Born Again Shell (the shell that was an improvement of the original Bourne Shell, named after Mr. Bourne.)

I don't know why it's taking up that much cpu power. It's a basically ubiquitous shell that is very simple and not buggy. What's going on in your terminal atm?

 

[klingens]

Are you running any shellscript? running it right now I mean, constantly?

 

[ps2cho]

Whats a shell script?

 

[MRD]

Like a batch file, but a lot more complicated.

 

[Smokeys]

Is the server running as a daemon in the background or in the foreground? If its in the foreground Could it be possible that a large amount of scrolling text is taxing bash?

 

[ps2cho]

Its just running in the forground...I dont know how to make it a daemon. its confusing.