[Om2008.9] process 'events/0' consuming a lot of CPU loops

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Mon Oct 13 10:03:56 CEST 2008


Hello,

I encounter from time to time the situation that the FR behaves slowly,
for example in launching the Contacts or other stuff; this is because
one process consumes a lot of CPU usage; top shows:

Tasks:  69 total,   2 running,  67 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.6%us, 25.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 71.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.9%si, 0.0%st
Mem:    123856k total,   110628k used,    13228k free,       28k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,    56348k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
    5 root      15  -5     0    0    0 R 19.6  0.0  59:31.35 events/0           
 7239 root      20   0  2252 1100  884 R  3.8  0.9   0:03.10 top                
  298 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  3.2  0.0   7:35.50 SDIO Helper        
 1396 root      19  -1 16280 8464 2124 S  0.9  6.8   9:31.73 Xglamo             
 1443 root      20   0 19824  10m 5968 S  0.6  8.5   9:29.57 enlightenment      
 7217 root      20   0  2336  928  740 S  0.3  0.7   0:00.64 dropbear           
    1 root      20   0  1524  564  500 S  0.0  0.5   0:07.42 init               

note the proc 'events/0' with nearly one hour of CPU utilisation after
around 22h uptime; what is the reason for this?

	matthias
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