Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261563AbUCKRQ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:16:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261558AbUCKRQ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:16:59 -0500 Received: from 69-90-55-107.fastdsl.ca ([69.90.55.107]:56193 "EHLO TMA-1.brad-x.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261564AbUCKRQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:16:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4050A047.9030603@brad-x.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:22:15 -0500 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040222 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ksoftirqd using mysteriously high amounts of CPU time References: <404F85A6.6070505@brad-x.com> <20040310155712.7472e31c.akpm@osdl.org> <4050271C.3070103@brad-x.com> <40503120.9000008@brad-x.com> <20040311020832.1aa25177.akpm@osdl.org> <1079013947.24999.17.camel@firefly> In-Reply-To: <1079013947.24999.17.camel@firefly> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 18 Yury V. Umanets wrote: > Hello, > > I have impression, that it is somehow related to ACPI and CPU > temperature. When CPU gets more hot ksoftirqd starts to eat 99% of CPU. > > It may be checked by disabling ACPI (if enabled) and/or monitoring > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature (if any). Happens on a system without ACPI or Power Management of any kind enabled though. Brad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/