It looks like udev is responding to legitimate received events, based on 'udevadm monitor -e'. Commenting out the add|change action in 95-multipath.rules stops the spurious events and returns CPU consumption to expected levels.
** Attachment added: "udevadm monitor -e" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/644489/+attachment/1618827/+files/udevadm-monitor-events -- constantly changes /dev/disk/by-id/{scsi,wwn}-* LUN symlinks with multipathing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs