Re: Why is kslowd accumulating so much CPU time?

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Jun 15 2010 - 14:08:03 EST


Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am seeing crunchy cursor behavior on boot on Ubuntu Lucid user space
> with the 2.6.35-rc3 kernel as well. It pretty much always does that
> on boot, and often later as well. Right now I have four of these
> chaps each consuming 9% of a CPU. Though they definatly come and go.
> Very odd:
>
> 938 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 9 0.0 1:00.90 kslowd001
> 1048 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 9 0.0 1:01.12 kslowd002
> 937 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 8 0.0 1:00.92 kslowd000
> 1544 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 8 0.0 1:00.55 kslowd003

Can you see what they're doing?

watch -n0 cat /sys/kernel/debug/slow_work/runqueue

David
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