In kernel 2.6.3, if I take down the network connection, within a second
or so top shows 99.9% CPU utilization for [events/0].
When I restablish a network connection, it calms down at once.
I had the same behavior in 2.6.0.
Details below -- what can I do to get more information on what is happening?
Cheers,
David
(Please cc: me)
#lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1671 Super P4 Northbridge
[AGP4X,PCI and SDR/DDR] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link
Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
00:09.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan
chipset (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815
(MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420
Go 32M] (rev a3)
#dmesg
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
originally by Donald Becker <[email protected]>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xe089d000, 00:c0:9f:15:0f:59, IRQ 5.
eth0: link up.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
eth0: remaining active for wake-on-lan
eth0: link up.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
# ifdown eth0
# top
3 root 15 -10 0 0 0 R 99.9 0.0 4:06.09 events/0
# ps aux | grep events
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? RW< Mar14 1:00 [events/0]
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Francis F Steen wrote:
> In kernel 2.6.3, if I take down the network connection, within a second
> or so top shows 99.9% CPU utilization for [events/0].
> When I restablish a network connection, it calms down at once.
>
> I had the same behavior in 2.6.0.
>
> Details below -- what can I do to get more information on what is happening?
Compile in CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ and then when the load goes up do;
alt + syrq + t
you're interested in the call traces from events/0