Package: udev Version: 160-1 Severity: normal I recently noticed that net.agent (in packet udev, according to search on debian homepage) uses much CPU time on my (original) EEE-PC netbook.
Just now "sudo top" shows top - 19:14:07 up 31 days, 5:50, 6 users, load average: 1.53, 1.50, 1.55 Tasks: 147 total, 1 running, 146 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 36.3%us, 14.2%sy, 11.4%ni, 37.1%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2066220k total, 1939888k used, 126332k free, 151480k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1329940k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20082 gpb 20 0 565m 178m 31m S 5.6 8.9 642:17.14 firefox-bin 1822 root 20 0 2460 1096 808 R 3.7 0.1 0:00.04 top 1413 root 20 0 3244 1784 1024 S 1.9 0.1 59:25.83 fancontrol 1886 root 20 0 22200 6988 2156 S 1.9 0.3 225:27.97 wicd 1911 root 20 0 12696 7044 3452 S 1.9 0.3 106:53.78 wicd-monitor Notice the load of 1.5 and CPU percentage quite high although all shown processes in top amount to sub 20% CPU (rest of processes are 0.1% or less). When I "killall net.agent" the load and CPU drops to normal: top - 19:19:06 up 31 days, 5:55, 6 users, load average: 0.28, 0.90, 1.28 Tasks: 137 total, 1 running, 136 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 7.3%us, 3.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2066220k total, 1890076k used, 176144k free, 151480k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1330124k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20082 gpb 20 0 549m 178m 31m S 6.0 8.8 642:32.99 firefox-bin 14779 root 20 0 300m 23m 10m S 1.7 1.1 4888:44 Xorg 29779 gpb 20 0 242m 12m 9512 S 1.7 0.6 22:04.87 lxterminal 5111 root 20 0 2464 1184 896 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.21 top 14087 gpb 20 0 116m 20m 12m S 0.3 1.0 19:08.83 xchat 14864 gpb 20 0 218m 12m 9584 S 0.3 0.6 69:49.46 lxpanel This stays like that for a few days, then net.agent (or something related) again uses much CPU without showing in top/htop. I currently use debian testing, fully patched as of speaking, with lxde as window manager and wicd network manager to quickly switch between networks if necessary (although I mostly use the same network). Perhaps wicd plays a role in this, as the problems started around the same time I began using it (earlier I manually changed the necessary /etc files every time I changed my location and therefore networks (cabled/wireless)). But this may well be a coincidence and I have not yet thoroughly tested if it disappears when I close wicd in my tray. Although this problem makes my netbook quite unresponsive when it appears I tagged normal because it happens rarely and not everyone has such a slow device :) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libudev0 160-1 libudev shared library ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-16 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii util-linux 2.17.2-3.2 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages udev recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.1.7-5 Linux PCI Utilities ii usbutils 0.87-5 Linux USB utilities udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information: udev/new_kernel_needed: false udev/title/upgrade: udev/reboot_needed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
