help processor 50% io 50% hi

[Richard Gliebe]

On 1/5/11 3:43 PM Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to diagnose this, or is this a known issue ? Any boot
> time kernel parameters I could add to work around it ?
>

try to boot from a linux live CD (knoppix, grml), mount your root 
partition to /mnt and see what happens (hardware errors, ...), while you 
are running "cd /mnt && ls -lisaR".

Regards
Richard