Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932173AbWEPRlr (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 13:41:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932178AbWEPRlq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 13:41:46 -0400 Received: from relay00.pair.com ([209.68.5.9]:40210 "HELO relay00.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932173AbWEPRlq (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 13:41:46 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 71.197.50.189 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:41:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Chase Venters X-X-Sender: root@turbotaz.ourhouse To: Dimitris Zilaskos cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: events/0 eats 100% cpu on core duo laptop In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1112 Lines: 32 On Tue, 16 May 2006, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Hello , > > I have installed Slackware 10.2 on a fujitsu siemens e8110 laptop (Core Duo). > With 2.6.16.12 & 2.6.16.16 kernels, a few minutes after boot events/0 starts > eating 100% cpu (affecting performance and battery life). > Any ideas ? events is used for a lot of things. Can you send lspci and dmesg output? Can you try leaving the system totally idle (no network traffic, etc) for a while and see if that delay before events begins looping is affected? Do you have an earlier or later kernel release you can test/confirm as affected or unaffected? It's not much fun, but if you can find a kernel that properly works, it's always possible to do a bisect... > > Best regards , > -- > ============================================================================ > > Dimitris Zilaskos Thanks, Chase - 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/