keventd causing high load
i just updated the latest kernel-2.4.24-1 and after that my load has risen high.
something called keventd is causing a high load.
what is it and how do i get rid of the problem.
:10pm up 21:41, 1 user, load average: 6.18, 6.49, 6.66
237 processes: 221 sleeping, 9 running, 2 zombie, 5 stopped
CPU states: 47.5% user, 45.7% system, 0.0% nice, 6.7% idle
Mem: 515728K av, 407976K used, 107752K free, 0K shrd, 76404K buff
Swap: 2076688K av, 0K used, 2076688K free 89736K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2 root 18 0 0 0 0 RW 30.1 0.0 465:54 keventd
29839 nobody 9 0 5024 5024 3308 S 4.1 0.9 0:00 httpd
29384 nobody 10 0 5164 5164 3380 S 3.7 1.0 0:02 httpd
29385 nobody 11 0 6508 6508 3400 S 3.7 1.2 0:03 httpd
28678 nobody 10 0 5516 5516 3388 R 3.5 1.0 0:05 httpd
29712 nobody 10 0 5040 5040 3320 S 3.5 0.9 0:01 httpd
29733 nobody 9 0 5116 5116 3380 S 3.5 0.9 0:01 httpd
29844 nobody 10 0 5032 5032 3300 R 3.3 0.9 0:00 httpd
28921 nobody 9 0 5512 5512 3392 S 3.1 1.0 0:04 httpd
29824 nobody 9 0 5020 5020 3344 S 3.1 0.9 0:00 httpd
29843 nobody 10 0 5100 5100 3360 S 3.1 0.9 0:00 httpd
29391 nobody 13 0 7116 7116 3324 R 2.7 1.3 0:03 httpd
29731 nobody 11 0 5516 5516 3380 S 2.7 1.0 0:01 httpd
28128 nobody 9 0 7380 7380 3400 S 2.3 1.4 0:08 httpd
thanks
sohail
