runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

[Matthias Apitz]

Hello,

Yesterday I run again into the situation where the runaway proc events/0
drains nearly all power from my battery :-(

I'm thinking in writing a /etc/rc.d script which is launched at boot and
does an automated reboot when the CPU time of events/0 reaches a given
limit XXX; the CPU time is easy to read as:

while true; do
    ps --no-heading -C events/0 -o time | awk -F : '{print $1*3600+$2*60+$3}'
    sleep 600
done    

checking this every 10 minutes or so, what would be a good threshold
value XXX in secs for a reboot? My actual uptime is ~14h and the
consumed CPU time of events/0 is around 72 secs:

Thx

	matthias
-- 
Matthias Apitz
Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH
Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany
t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211
e <matthias.apitz at oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/
b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/

SPAMer of the year: Subject: Alle Software ist Deutsche Sprachen
>From: -40 % die Neujahrsaktion <GabrielleKelley at grungecafe.com>