On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:38:13PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote: > a process called ksoftirqd_CPU0 is eating up my cpu ... I recently > returned from apm suspend and now this process eats 95% of my cpu. Oddly > enough I am not able to kill it with kill -9 pid. It's not odd at all. See below. As to the high CPU usage, it would appear that either it really has a lot of work to do, or it's a sampling issue. At any rate, I would suggest not to kill -9 everything that is unknown on sight. It might be important. > Any idea what this process does? STFW. http://lwn.net/2001/0726/a/ugly.php3 In short: That is, as the name suggests, a kernel daemon handling soft IRQs which hannot be handled at the spot. -- x----------------------------------------------------------------------x | Benford's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law: | | Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.| | -- Gregory Benford. Foundation's Fear. 1997 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Nicolas Kratz <nick@ikarus.dyndns.org> <n_kratz@cs.uni-frankfurt.de> | x----------------------------------------------------------------------x
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