Michael Hannon wrote:
> Hi, folks. We're running SL 4.3 on a dual-Opteron server. We've just
> noticed that there are processes that show as "events" in the output of
> the top command that are consuming large amounts of the CPU on this
> system:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 R 99.9 0.0 1786:41 events/1
>
> I can't tell where this process is coming from or what to do about it.
> Can you help? Thanks.
No clear cut answer but this page might give you some ideas to try
troubleshooting it (sounds like it could be anything causing it!):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=441837
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Mark Whidby
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences