Re: rcu_preempt running flat out on idle desktop.

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu May 09 2013 - 05:04:20 EST


2013/5/8 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:52:58PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:30:42PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> > > 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 185301:36 rcu_preempt
> > > 553 root 20 0 268m 76m 6764 S 200.0 2.6 144579:53 Xorg
> > > 1199 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 306:17.85 kworker/1:0
> > > 501 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 4471:03 kworker/0:2
> > > 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 67277:16 rcuop/1
> > > 1237 davej 20 0 535m 15m 8484 S 200.0 0.5 3645:16 Terminal
> > > 859 davej 20 0 117m 3036 1336 S 200.0 0.1 1986:55 htop
> > >
> > > There are a lot of processes allegedly using "200%" of CPU time, a handful
> > > in the "196%" range, and then a bunch at 0.
> >
> > Yow!!! 185301 minutes is 128 days, which is a truly impressive amount of
> > CPU time to accumulate in a few short hours.

Right, Ingo has reported something about strange high numbers in top
too. I need to investigate that.

Thanks.
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