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  1. Bug #64970
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Comment 1 for bug 64970

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ruffneckc (ruffneckc) wrote : Re: syslogd, klogd using 100% cpu

+1 here.

My CPU is working overtime and here are the culprits. The top command revealed the following:

[PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

 3810 root 16 0 1728 516 420 S 21.8 0.0 4:02.02 dd
 3784 root 16 0 1652 620 500 R 18.5 0.0 3:13.49 syslogd
 3812 klog 15 0 2428 1312 384 S 3.3 0.1 0:44.97 klogd

As you can see the CPU is being gobbled my those 3 programs that started running after I got the latest kernel updates and restarted.

EDIT: When I did a ps -ef on PID 3810 this is what came up:

ps -ef | grep 3810
root 3810 1 15 18:32 ? 00:04:03 /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/klogd/kmsg