[Bug 801151] Re: High idle CPU usage from udevd

Garrett Sides 801151 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Jun 23 13:39:04 UTC 2011


** Description changed:

  It's happened before (since Natty was released) where the CPU fan would
  spin up and the CPU usage would rise (as I could see on Syspeek) and
  never come back down, in the past I thought it was from my meddling with
  Plymouth and Kernel setting, but on this Natty install neither of those
  things have been done. Now my CPU idles at 30-60% even with no other
  programs running, and the boot time has increased dramatically along
  with this problem.
  
  I ran top -n 1 | head -n 12 to look at the processes and their usage, which is what lead me to udev and here's the output:
  top - 09:17:27 up 37 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.81, 1.02, 1.01
  Tasks: 276 total,   2 running, 271 sleeping,   0 stopped,   3 zombie
  Cpu(s): 28.2%us,  9.6%sy,  0.9%ni, 55.7%id,  5.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
  Mem:   7935908k total,  2560884k used,  5375024k free,   156648k buffers
  Swap:  8117244k total,        0k used,  8117244k free,   881148k cached
  
-   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
-   570 root      16  -4  150m 130m  336 S   62  1.7  12:20.77 udevd              
- 22597 garrett   20   0  159m 5076 3076 S   23  0.1   6:35.66 gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor    
-   585 root      18  -2 21604 1040  352 S    8  0.0   2:32.60 udevd              
- 22616 root      20   0  134m 5236 3120 S    6  0.1   2:49.20 udisks-daemon      
+   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
+   570 root      16  -4  150m 130m  336 S   62  1.7  12:20.77 udevd
+ 22597 garrett   20   0  159m 5076 3076 S   23  0.1   6:35.66 gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
+   585 root      18  -2 21604 1040  352 S    8  0.0   2:32.60 udevd
+ 22616 root      20   0  134m 5236 3120 S    6  0.1   2:49.20 udisks-daemon
  23521 garrett   20   0  176m 8460 5708 S    6  0.1   2:22.04 gdu-notification-daemon
  
- Ubuntu release: Natty
- Udev version:  167-0ubuntu3
- 
- I expect the CPU to idle around 1-3% like it does before this bug and
- boot-up time to be around 20-30 seconds...but once this starts the CPU
- goes up to 30-60% as stated earlier and boot times go into the minute-
- and-a-half range
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: udev 167-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jun 23 09:20:57 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExecutablePath: /sbin/udevd
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  MachineType: Gateway DX4300
  ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=5fbe7f6c-4ae2-4959-b049-c135e717a12b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: udev
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/24/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: P01-A1
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: RS780
  dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.0
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP01-A1:bd04/24/2009:svnGateway:pnDX4300:pvrP01-A1:rvnGateway:rnRS780:rvrRev1.0:cvnGateway:ct3:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.name: DX4300
  dmi.product.version: P01-A1
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway

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Title:
  High idle CPU usage from udevd

Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It's happened before (since Natty was released) where the CPU fan
  would spin up and the CPU usage would rise (as I could see on Syspeek)
  and never come back down, in the past I thought it was from my
  meddling with Plymouth and Kernel setting, but on this Natty install
  neither of those things have been done. Now my CPU idles at 30-60%
  even with no other programs running, and the boot time has increased
  dramatically along with this problem.

  I ran top -n 1 | head -n 12 to look at the processes and their usage, which is what lead me to udev and here's the output:
  top - 09:17:27 up 37 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.81, 1.02, 1.01
  Tasks: 276 total,   2 running, 271 sleeping,   0 stopped,   3 zombie
  Cpu(s): 28.2%us,  9.6%sy,  0.9%ni, 55.7%id,  5.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
  Mem:   7935908k total,  2560884k used,  5375024k free,   156648k buffers
  Swap:  8117244k total,        0k used,  8117244k free,   881148k cached

    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    570 root      16  -4  150m 130m  336 S   62  1.7  12:20.77 udevd
  22597 garrett   20   0  159m 5076 3076 S   23  0.1   6:35.66 gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
    585 root      18  -2 21604 1040  352 S    8  0.0   2:32.60 udevd
  22616 root      20   0  134m 5236 3120 S    6  0.1   2:49.20 udisks-daemon
  23521 garrett   20   0  176m 8460 5708 S    6  0.1   2:22.04 gdu-notification-daemon

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: udev 167-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jun 23 09:20:57 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExecutablePath: /sbin/udevd
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  MachineType: Gateway DX4300
  ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=5fbe7f6c-4ae2-4959-b049-c135e717a12b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: udev
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 04/24/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: P01-A1
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: RS780
  dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.0
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP01-A1:bd04/24/2009:svnGateway:pnDX4300:pvrP01-A1:rvnGateway:rnRS780:rvrRev1.0:cvnGateway:ct3:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.name: DX4300
  dmi.product.version: P01-A1
  dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway

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