ksoftirqd_CPU0

[Hans Fugal <hans@fugal.net>]

ksoftirqd_CPU0 is taking way too much processor, it would seem.

>From top:
    3 root      20  19     0    0     0 RWN  97.0  0.0  19:38 ksoftirqd_CPU0

My system is basically running at 99% cpu usage constantly. Any ideas?

I tried stopping just about everything I could think of, and it is still doing
it.

# ps ax
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:09 init
    2 ?        SW     0:00 [keventd]
    3 ?        RWN   18:26 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 ?        SW     0:00 [kswapd]
    5 ?        SW     0:00 [bdflush]
    6 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdated]
    8 ?        SW     0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
    9 ?        SW     0:00 [khubd]
   10 ?        SW<    0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
  364 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
  387 ttyS0    S      0:00 /sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt102
  503 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
  505 ?        S      0:01 /usr/sbin/sshd
  506 pts/1    S      0:00 -bash
  521 pts/1    S      0:01 bash
  700 pts/1    R      0:00 ps ax

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