On Fri July 22 2005 5:55 pm, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 22 July 2005 07:12 am, Patrick John Hays wrote:
I've had Suse 9.2 since it was released and have been having increased problems with kacpid. Every few days it suddenly starts hogging 48% of the CPU with a priority -10. If I "kill" it, it just starts right back up. Dropping the prority to +10 doesn't help. The only way to stop it seems to be to reboot.
From the man page on acpid (which I assume kacpid is tied to although there doesn't seem to be any doc on kacpid) its not clear to me that acpid is necessary.
My question is: where might I look to see what is triggering this uncivilized behaviour and what is kacpid 'doing'?
Perhaps responding to a flood of events? Overheating perhaps? Or polling interval set to some very low number?
Once it gets into this mode it never stops running until I reboot. I'm sure it's not temperature because my case shows all temps normal and the fans (8) are all working. Also the room is air conditioned. The /var/log/acpid file shows nothing unusual (just startups, shutdowns, and a handful of thermal events last Dec when I was experimenting with setting temperature thresholds). The screwy thing is it will be fine for several days; sometimes over a week and then kacpid starts running wild.