Rebooted today and the problem is gone?!?! Dave ------------- root@crankyadmin.net cranky@archlinux.us On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, David Houston <root@crankyadmin.net> wrote:

Hi all,

Over the last day or so, udev has been sending my system load though the roof?!? Nothing has changed on the system. I have included a screencap of htop for your viewing pleasure. Anybody got any idea why udev is freaking out? It is now loagging my system.

Oh yeah, problem presists after a reboot. :(

------- SCREENCAP ------

1 [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Tasks: 240 total, 8 running 2 [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 63.2%] Load average: 3.54 1.67 0.64 Mem [||||||||||||||||||||||| 496/2024MB] Uptime: 00:14:35 Swp [ 0/258MB]

PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 629 root 16 -4 34288 33084 424 R 79.0 1.6 2:17.77 /sbin/udevd --daemon 5975 dave 20 0 394M 150M 33428 S 5.0 7.4 0:25.51 /usr/bin/firefox 1773 root 19 -1 810M 34324 10696 S 5.0 1.7 0:12.00 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp 1336 hal 20 0 6524 4404 3464 R 5.0 0.2 0:08.01 /usr/sbin/hald 1333 dbus 20 0 2360 944 716 R 4.0 0.0 0:07.41 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 1807 dave 20 0 25456 5460 4552 R 1.0 0.3 0:02.20 Thunar --sm-client-id 2fbdcc117-ace0-4cb5-ba5c-12c5be6a1816 --daemon 1812 dave 20 0 15128 2844 2140 S 1.0 0.1 0:02.44 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2c8d537b7-1939-40f3-9fbe-2263f4160bf4 13561 dave 20 0 2752 1528 944 R 1.0 0.1 0:00.16 htop 1659 root 18 -2 2076 904 432 R 0.0 0.0 0:01.82 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1811 dave 20 0 62480 20852 18448 S 0.0 1.0 0:01.66 xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2bf627c6b-32d8-4f35-9abc-272c1365f117 1806 dave 20 0 25888 16276 13912 S 0.0 0.8 0:01.87 xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 21fd626f9-d774-4cd5-98a4-2f6a1b3027ff 1 root 20 0 1684 564 500 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.68 ini 1263 root 20 0 4664 484 268 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 supervising syslog-ng 1264 root 20 0 4844 1784 1392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng 1303 root 20 0 1872 312 220 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /sbin/dhcpcd -q eth0 1315 root 20 0 6152 976 620 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/sshd 1339 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.52 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1341 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1342 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1343 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1344 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1345 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1346 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 1348 root 20 0 9896 2612 1836 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon

---------- END SCREENCAP -------

Dave ------------- root@crankyadmin.net cranky@archlinux.us