[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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