On 09/05/2012 03:08 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 09/05/2012 02:52 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> Anyone else here noticed (dramatically) increased cpu usage for ksoftirqd on
>> their SL6 machines with recent kernels?  Anyone know what's going on?
>>
>
> Sometimes it seems to be kondemand that is using lots of cpu instead.
>

centos report:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5813

Unfortunately the referenced upstream bug appears to be private:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5813

A suggested workaround in nohz=off.  Haven't tried that yet.

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