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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:20:40 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ACPI using too much CPU on idle system
Message-ID:  <20030324212040.GF2462@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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top -S shows the following on my machine:

CPU states:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice, 80.3% system, 12.9% interrupt,  6.1% id=
le

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
   11 root     -16    0     0K    12K RUN    563:23 32.23% 32.23% idle
    7 root     -84    0     0K    12K actask   1:33 18.51% 18.51% acpi_task2
    5 root     -84    0     0K    12K actask   1:33 18.21% 18.21% acpi_task0
    6 root     -84    0     0K    12K actask   1:33 17.82% 17.82% acpi_task1
   21 root     -68 -187     0K    12K WAIT     0:55  4.98%  4.98% irq9: fxp=
0 atapci0*
   17 root     -24 -143     0K    12K WAIT     0:06  0.83%  0.83% swi6: acp=
itaskq
=20
The machine is supposedly idle..no process, disk or network activity,
so I can't see any reason for all this kernel CPU activity.  What is
going on?  Is this some kind of software-emulated CPU step-down
because ACPI has decided my CPU is too fast? :)

Kris

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