On Wednesday 19 April 2006 23:29, Chad Groneman wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 18:53 +0100, Jon Black wrote:
The process that is taking up 90% of the CPU is called events/0. There is an events/1 process that has 0% of the CPU...I'm not sure what these processes do but I think they are processor related or perhaps acpi.
I don't know exactly what the events/ processes are, but my guess pretty much the same as yours. My guess is interrupt handling. It could be ACPI interrupts, so you could try the failsafe method. I don't know the ramifications of doing that though - it might be that there's a lot of interrupts because something's not working properly (hardware).
The output of dmesg and lspci might be useful. Maybe there are some evil ACPI or APIC errors who trouble the kernel :) Philipp