Re: 2.1.129 oddity - high system load

[Mathias Kretschmer]

> Anyway, it's been af few hours ago since I stopped loading the machine. But
> top and xosview tells me, that I'm still having 100% CPU load from the
> kernel.
>
> ... 
> 
> There are no processes in the top that seems to cause any of the system
> load.
> 
> Furthermore, the machine is really crawling. It feels like something is
> really loading it.  But nothing is...

I had the same experience using some of the most recent 2.1.xxx kernels.
It happened on both UP and SMP machines.

-Mathas