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  1. Bug #183461
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 183461

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David de Beer (daviddebeer) wrote :

I can now confirm that this bug is caused by the TV Card. Once I blacklisted the cx8800 and cx88xx modules, the problem went away:

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist | tail -2
blacklist cx8800
blacklist cx88xx

$ uname -a
Linux unix 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

$ top

top - 10:07:00 up 1:05, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 151 total, 1 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.1%id, 0.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2075944k total, 682880k used, 1393064k free, 16736k buffers
Swap: 3911788k total, 0k used, 3911788k free, 446616k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    1 root 18 0 2948 1856 532 S 0 0.1 0:01.31 init
    2 root 12 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
    4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.13 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
    7 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
    8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
    9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
   10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1
   11 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
   31 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
   32 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1