[arch-general] udev and high load.......

[David Houston]

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

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Dave
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