> The problem is - CPU #2 is maxed-out, doing systemd something -
I don't see that from your htop cut-and-paste but I'll have to assume you really did see a cpu fully in use by systemd. > something to do with /lib/systemd/systemd --system --deserialize 27. I > do not think this is right. no question. > It is using half of my CPU resources, doing > nothing as far as I can tell. Is there a fix for this? Can I possibly > install nosystemd and go back to when things were good? We could go back to paper tape install and reel to reel tape based swap but that isn't really the issue. Do another look and see if you can isolate the pid/ppid numbers of the offending process and try a sigHUP at it. In the mean while I will fire up my own G5 here and have a look. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional