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Finally, after nearly 2 years of suspense, I found the ROOT of the 100% CPU utilisation - the evil of my high CPU wastage.

I am thinking that Intel celeron sucks because it always run at 100% utilisation in Linux thus slowing down the system. Maybe the RAM is not enough. Maybe hdd is too slow. All are not true. The reason is due to a corrupted zmd.db file.

To resolve, follow the following steps:

1) enter root and open system monitor and stop zmd from running by terminating it when you spot it running;

2) open terminal and stop zmd by typing "zczmd stop". If you do not see "done.", you probably did not close zmd in memory as mentioned in (1);

3) delete the file in /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db;

4) start ZMD by "zczmd start";

5) reboot and login as root; and

6) zmd will run for a few minutes and stable down after the zmd.db file is recreated.

Problem solved... finally. CPU should be 0% most of the time.

My System

I am having an old IBM note book 2681-21A. After the sales to Lenovo, I am worried that Lenovo no longer interested to support old IBM models. But my worry is unfounded as Lenovo must uphold its image.

This is my system specifications:

CPU: Mobile Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 1.60 GHz
Memory: 377.1 MB
HDD: 15.9GB (yes, i have a limited space issue)
Partition: Windows - 9.2GB, SuSE - 6.2GB, Swap - 0.5GB and a small hidden partition for IBM recovery.

I have an initial concern of partitioning but later I have decided to retain the Windows XP partition. But I regret not having a bigger partition for Linux as I seldom use Windows now.

My CPU always run at 100% and response is slow despite a good network connection. My USB ports are damaged physically and only when using active power USB port, it will be activated again. I have yet to find a solution to solve this problem. Anyone has any solution?

My LAN card is not working at this stupid IBM is using a LAN port which cannot support conventional PCMCIA card. This is unexpected as I did not anticipate that when I buy it. So I cannot utiltise the wireless network connection.

One special beauty about Linux is old notebook or system with low resources can run. Let's see how long can I use this notebook before I get a new one... if the budget allows.

My Experience with SUSE Linux 10.1

I have always been a Microsoft follower till 1.5 year ago.

Switching to SuSE is a wise choice as it is open source and FREE. I started with 9.3 and later converted to 10.1 late last year.

I have been following the updates but I have many minor issues with SuSE and always need to go to web for help.

In this blog, I will share with you what are the issues the pop up and how I resolve them, hopefully.