Re: ksoftirqd using mysteriously high amounts of CPU time

From: Yury V. Umanets
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 13:09:58 EST


On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 19:22, Brad Laue wrote:
> 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
Then have you seen clear dependence of ksoftirqd getting crazy on system
load? Or something else?

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