When I boot up every day without exception, my machine starts up with one of the CPU cores running at 100%. I see lots of posts on other forums (Unbuntu etc) going back over a year or more blaming touchpads or nvidia or WiFi. Some even say they can't use their thumb drive if it isn't plugged in when they boot. The problem also mimics a defective thumb drive where you plug it in and Ubuntu doesn't see it (because systemd-udevd doesn't have the cycles to process the newly plugged in USB device). Losing one core makes my machine slower but not too noticeably so. I do see much longer boot times and sometime it will hang entirely during boot. I assume a single core or dual core machine will be drastically slowed down or even unusable. When I search I find other non-ubuntu os's complaining about similar problems.
I have 18.10 running on my Dell studio XPS with an AMD® Phenom(tm) ii x4 945 processor × 4 and AMD® Juniper graphics. It's a quad-core 64 bit machine. I have wireless mouse and keyboard for Logitech. I have a pretty vanilla set-up. I DO NOT have a touchpad or nvidia or WiFi! I can verify that the problem can be managed by stopping and starting systemd-udevd. I used the following commands, suggested in this bug report, in sequence in the terminal which corrects the problem until I boot again. sudo systemctl stop systemd-udevd systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd- udevd-control.socket sudo systemctl start systemd-udevd systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd- udevd-control.socket Also the problem will "sometimes" re-appear by plugging in a thumb drive! This is a serious kernel problem and can manifest its presence in a number of ways depending on your hardware configuration. This is a very very very annoying problem will someone PLEASE fix it soon! ...did I mention that this is a serious problem impacting many people! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bluez in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1759836 Title: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU Status in linux: Confirmed Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: New Status in bluez package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The systemd-udevd proccess consumes 100% of a thread everytime, but i'm not noticing any difference in my computer. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: systemd 237-3ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Mar 29 08:52:54 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-05 (23 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180304) MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron N5010 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-13-generic root=UUID=3c29e292-f1ae-45e1-a0ed-a82524278ce1 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: systemd SystemdDelta: [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service → /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/user@.service → /lib/systemd/system/user@.service.d/timeout.conf 2 overridden configuration files found. UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 01/25/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A12 dmi.board.name: 08R0GW dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A12 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A12 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA12:bd01/25/2011:svnDellInc.:pnInspironN5010:pvrA12:rvnDellInc.:rn08R0GW:rvrA12:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA12: dmi.product.name: Inspiron N5010 dmi.product.version: A12 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kernel/+bug/1759836/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
