[mythtv-users] "events/1" causing 100% CPU usage, choppy video
Allen Edwards
allen.p.edwards at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 01:43:57 UTC 2009
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Jim Cuzella <TrinitronX at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Today while watching TV, suddenly playback slowed to a crawl and sound
> capture stopped completely.
> A quick look at running processes using "top" showed that "events/1" run
> by root is taking up 100% CPU. What is this process? It is making
> mythtv unusable.
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 R 100 0.0 3:19.10 events/1
> 10881 mythtv 20 0 502m 48m 12m S 19 2.4 10:33.79 mythbackend
> 10907 trinitro 20 0 862m 294m 54m R 6 14.7 9:34.91 mythfrontend.re
> 3790 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:21.34 md0_raid5
> 6323 root 20 0 156m 62m 28m S 0 3.1 1:52.61 Xorg
> 1 root 20 0 4100 908 616 S 0 0.0 0:01.10 init
> 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
> 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
> 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.32 ksoftirqd/0
> 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
> 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
> 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.76 ksoftirqd/1
> 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
> 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.58 events/0
> 11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
> 49 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
> 50 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
>
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I googled events linux process and found this link that might help.
Not sure about your system so maybe you should try a more intelligent
google search than I can do.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-kernel-70/events0-process-usage-441837/
Allen
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