Re: ksoftirqd using mysteriously high amounts of CPU time

[Brad Laue]

Yury V. Umanets wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have impression, that it is somehow related to ACPI and CPU
> temperature. When CPU gets more hot ksoftirqd starts to eat 99% of CPU.
>
> It may be checked by disabling ACPI (if enabled) and/or monitoring
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature (if any).

Happens on a system without ACPI or Power Management of any kind enabled 
though.

Brad
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