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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1759836 Title: systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kernel/+bug/1759836/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
