Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261181AbUCKRcy (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:32:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261442AbUCKRcx (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:32:53 -0500 Received: from mill.mtholyoke.edu ([138.110.30.76]:5762 "EHLO mill.mtholyoke.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261181AbUCKRcs (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:32:48 -0500 From: Ron Peterson Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:32:29 -0500 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: network/performance problem Message-ID: <20040311173229.GA12325@mtholyoke.edu> References: <20040311152728.GA11472@mtholyoke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040311152728.GA11472@mtholyoke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Mount Holyoke College X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 911 Lines: 26 On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:27:28AM -0500, rpeterso wrote: > I've been perusing fa.linux.kernel, and saw Brad Laue's thread. FWIW, > it smells similar. When my machines finally go down, ksoftirqd is > always at the top of the process list. > > Any ideas at all about what might be happening? I put my latest user.log file up (16M): http://depot.mtholyoke.edu:8080/tmp/sam-profile/user.log If you 'grep PSTOPCPU user.log | less', you can see that ksoftirqd_CPU0 slowly but steadily consumes a higher and higher CPU percentage. What this means, I have no idea. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso - 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/