I found a temp fix for me. I had top showing the load in excess of 1.00 but after shutting down udevd the load has come down to 0.04. The way I stopped it was:
service udev stop.
I am running Lucid Alpha on x86_64,
# uname -v
#20-Ubuntu SMP Sat Feb 20 05:18:19 UTC 2010
# udevd --version
151
I am not sure of the impact of stopping udev but the load has definitely come down.
I found a temp fix for me. I had top showing the load in excess of 1.00 but after shutting down udevd the load has come down to 0.04. The way I stopped it was:
service udev stop.
I am running Lucid Alpha on x86_64,
# uname -v
#20-Ubuntu SMP Sat Feb 20 05:18:19 UTC 2010
# udevd --version
151
I am not sure of the impact of stopping udev but the load has definitely come down.