Public bug reported: Looks like a runaway irqbalance process is consuming massive amount of Memory and CPU. This is running on a calxeda arm server used as a build server. Was unable to find any mention of irqbalance in /var/logs. Hopefully apport recorded the right data.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 861 root 20 0 1896m 1.5g 372 S 40.5 39.1 1447:25 irqbalance $ apt-cache policy irqbalance irqbalance: Installed: 1.0.5-2 Candidate: 1.0.5-2 Version table: *** 1.0.5-2 0 500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ raring/main armhf Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: irqbalance 1.0.5-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic armv7l ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5 Architecture: armhf Date: Fri Nov 1 06:33:51 2013 MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: irqbalance UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-07-24 (99 days ago) ** Affects: irqbalance (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug armhf raring -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to irqbalance in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247107 Title: Runaway irqbalance consuming CPU and Memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/irqbalance/+bug/1247107/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs