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

[David Houston]

Rebooted today and the problem is gone?!?!


Dave
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root at crankyadmin.net
cranky at archlinux.us


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, David Houston <root at 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
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> root at crankyadmin.net
> cranky at archlinux.us
>
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