On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 09:00, Seader, Cameron wrote: > Greetings, > Has anyone seen this happen? I am running SUSE SLES8 with SP3 and > kernel 2.4.21-231. I have received all the current updates for the > kernel and packages installed. Just seems that this process is running > away. It has been like this for over a day or more. I have tryed to > narrow down the problem, by disabling samba services and disableing > all network interfaces, and it still runs at 99%. Does anyone have any > ideas why this service is out of control? Has anyone seen this happen > before? >
We might have found a correlation between this process and the SuSE security checks that are listed in /etc/cron.d/seccheck. It could be a total coincidence, but last month the monthly security scan sent ksoftirqd_CPU off to the races. We've disabled the weekly and monthly checks and now after 9 days, ksoftirqd_CPU0 has used 00:00:49 and ksoftirqd_CPU1 has used 00:00:50. They use to consume many minutes of CPU time each. -- Sincerely, Steve Kohrs First National Bank of Omaha Enterprise Technology Services 402.633.7058 This email and any files attached with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error delete this message and notify the sender at 402-341-0500. If you are not the named recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
