Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-21 Thread Gareth McCaughan
I wrote: > About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't > guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears > in the output of "ps" as "[swi4: clock sio]" begins to > use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so > more or less instantaneously. It continues to do so >

Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-17 Thread Gareth McCaughan
I wrote: > About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't > guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears > in the output of "ps" as "[swi4: clock sio]" begins to > use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so > more or less instantaneously. It continues to do so > i

Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-14 Thread Gareth McCaughan
I wrote, inter alia, > About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't > guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears > in the output of "ps" as "[swi4: clock sio]" begins to > use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so > more or less instantaneously. It continues

"swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-13 Thread Gareth McCaughan
(Approximately the same question as I'm about to ask seems to have come up many times in -questions and -stable, but I haven't found a useful answer to it.) I have a box running 6-STABLE, cvsupped yesterday. Until recently it was running 5.something and showed exactly the same peculiar behaviour a