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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:56:30 +0100
From:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: cpu time oddity (was Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5)

On Friday 29 August 2008 16:42:42 Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2008 00:26:45 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Another week (my weeks do seem to be eight days, don't they? Very odd),
> > another -rc.
>
> (Don't know who's responsible for this one, so I've just added Ragael to
> CC)
>
> I only noticed this recently but it's probably been happening for a while
> (doesn't seem to happen on 2.6.26):
>
> ps aux
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         2 83033595  0.0  0     0 ?        S<   10:30 21114574:23
> [kthreadd] root      1740 83078470  0.0  0     0 ?        S<   10:31
> 21114574:23 [md0_raid1]
>
> Seems to happen only to kernel threads and at random. Last time I booted
> it was two XFS threads.
>
> Before I start another bisection, does anybody have any ideas?

Okay this is a duplicate report of:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11209

Which seems to have stalled..

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.
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