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 -- Mark Whidby Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences