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Re: [SLE] CPU busy.
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 03:32:13 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302100328340.17252-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The 03.02.08 at 09:28, Bill Wisse wrote:

> On several occasions I have noticed that for no apparent reason the CPU
> is extremely busy.
> The system monitor shows "0%idle" even after I closed down all the
> running programs.

This happened to me twice: the (external) modem had crashed, and was
making thousands of interrupts per second. It was solved by power-cycling
the modem.

You can check for that watching /proc/interrupts.

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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson



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