At the moment on my dual-core laptop I see top - 09:25:11 up 17:59, 6 users, load average: 1.18, 1.16, 1.30 Tasks: 140 total, 4 running, 136 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 33.7%us, 18.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 48.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2056952k total, 1962684k used, 94268k free, 122800k buffers Swap: 3951952k total, 12612k used, 3939340k free, 1389820k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4592 klog 20 0 5532 488 428 R 100 0.0 94:43.82 klogd strace -p 4592 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 read(0, "", 4095) = 0 ... dpkg -l klogd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii klogd 1.5-6.1 Kernel Logging Daemon Kernel version 2.6.39-rc7+ (i.e., yesterday's snapshot, but I've seen the problem on-and-off over a number of kernel versions) FD 0 is /run/klogd/kmsg and fuser reports no other processes have it open. Restarting the dd to fill the pipe fixes the problem. Peter C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
