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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:54:50 +0100
From:      Deomid Ryabkov <myself@rojer.pp.ru>
To:        Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan@synaptics-uk.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU
Message-ID:  <44BD044A.4090509@rojer.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200607181317.33416.gmccaughan@synaptics-uk.com>
References:  <200607181317.33416.gmccaughan@synaptics-uk.com>

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Gareth McCaughan wrote:

> About 6 minutes after booting (on three occasions, but I
> don't guarantee this doesn't vary), a process (well, a
> kernel interrupt thread, I guess) that appears in the
> output of "ps" as "[swi4: clock sio]" begins to use
> about 3/4 of the machine's CPU.

I recall seeing similar behavior on a Sun V20z, running 5.x at the time.
I have definitely seen a lot of interrupts and CPU usage on the sio interrupt
corresponding to serial console. Needless to say there was no activity
on the console itself.
I think turning off serial console solved that for me.

-- 
Deomid Ryabkov aka Rojer
myself@rojer.pp.ru
rojer@sysadmins.ru
ICQ: 8025844

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