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Subject: Re: clock interrupts eating whole cpu
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GiZmen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday i have noticed that my cpu is runnig on 100%.
> And almost 100% is used on interrupts

> 
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>    27 root        1 -32 -151     0K     8K RUN     62:48 67.72% swi4: clock

Verify you don't have a console screen-saver configured, especially a 
graphical one - it happened to me several times.