[parisc-linux] ksoftirqd is using over 90% CPU (?!)

Carlos O'Donell carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:52:52 -0400


On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:39:31PM +0200, Ruediger Scholz wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> just another question: I just ran top to look what processe are running 
> and noticed that ksoftirqd is up to 98% CPU time. I remember that there 
> was a problem that s.th in the kernel eats up a lot oft CPU time. Wasn't 
> it solved?
> 
> Ruediger

Read the FAQ:
http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/index.html#ksoftirqd

c.