My server's been exhibiting some very strange behavior lately. Every
couple of days I run into a situation where one core (core #0) on the
quad core CPU starts continuously using around 34% of CPU, but I'm not
able to see (using htop) any process that's responsible for using all
that CPU. Even when I tell htop to show me kernel threads too, I still
am not able to see the offending process. Every process remains under
1% CPU usage (except for occasional, small, short-lived spikes up) yet
the CPU usage on that core remains permanently hovering at around 34%.
The problem goes away when I reboot, but then comes back with a day or
so.
I'm rather stumped as to how to fix this. The server is a bit old,
running an up-to-date installation of Arch on a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
CPU. Any suggestions anyone might have as to either what might be going
on here, or how to go about debugging it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
DR
- [arch-general] High CPU on one core, but ... David Rosenstrauch
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