Hi everyone, The system is loaded with redhat 7.2 and configuration is dual cpu (AMD) and 4 GB RAM when I execute top command
9:06pm up 7 days, 10:50, 10 users, load average: 2.11, 2.14, 1.88 95 processes: 92 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 97.0% user, 2.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle CPU1 states: 100.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 3670628K av, 1345032K used, 2325596K free, 0K shrd, 109668K buff Swap: 2096472K av, 6436K used, 2090036K free 527244K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 8578 root 17 0 15236 6784 1152 R 99.9 0.1 46:21 X 8965 fpgamac 16 0 255M 253M 5272 R 96.1 7.0 8:55 ncsim 8609 sathya 9 0 76976 75M 8680 S 1.9 2.0 0:11 signalscan 9071 root 11 0 1212 1208 956 R 1.9 0.0 0:00 top 1 root 8 0 520 520 452 S 0.0 0.0 0:05 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:55 kswapd 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:25 kreclaimd 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 kupdated 9 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 13 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 kjournald 132 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald 505 root 9 0 616 616 524 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 syslogd Anyone can help why root (PID 8578) is taking 99.9 % of CPU usage, what could be the problem. Even if I kill the process after some time again it will acquire 99.9% ..please help me out.. Thanks & Regards, santosh Ph: 5202424, 5273061 ext 102 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list