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