From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 04:06:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C2C1065678 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:06:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from invalid.pointer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811BE8FC0A for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk27 with SMTP id 27so1875603pzk.13 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:06:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B/6ThxDC99S0C+Aj3WMa3rudPr9kbQfopOTLo2FshDo=; b=UzVrj6sawo8/auGJUcMQoR3zaBVAHTiHkB+13GcD+b3V22s4Kq9XC6HaonYVxy0qeV QGFl3xdXqNQuy81TQXNy8oBRMG+mvdLbaJhkc6V78kaj0hWhJ39cUHXRnJpyMEov8bGx m//XIGdzyy1HZ5weecI3uH34NORbWGpaoTFTE= Received: by 10.68.44.65 with SMTP id c1mr185785pbm.344.1309406796823; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([14.96.141.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g8sm1293639pba.21.2011.06.29.21.06.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E0BF66F.9080800@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:37:11 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: PID 11 using 400% CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:06:37 -0000 Hello All, I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk goes into a full-speed never-ending spin. 'ps waux' always shows pid 11 as taking 400% CPU utilization : /root # ps -up 11 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 11 400.0 0.0 0 32 ?? RL 7:22PM 166:35.46 [idle] I have tried multiple tweaks to resolve this - all to no effect. The only thing that seems out of place is that polkitd seems to be missing. (I have no idea why this is the case). /etc/rc.conf states polkitd_enable="YES". This happens even in single-user mode, which I used to try to fix any filesystem errors with 'fsck -fy' : there were none. My system has only 2 partitions : ad8s2a (/) and ad8s2b (swap). Any pointers to what might the problem be ? Thanks in advance. Regards Manish Jain [1]invalid.pointer@gmail.com References 1. mailto:invalid.pointer@gmail.com