Is there a way to see where the cpu time is spent when it isn't in userland
?
I took one of our affected systems and killed everything on it as well as
disabling pf.

bmr1.brh# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS TT  STAT  STARTED       TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0   324   296 ??  Is     1Mar10    0:00.02 /sbin/init
root      8898  0.0  0.0   708  1200 ??  Is     1Mar10    0:00.02
/usr/sbin/sshd
root     29797  0.0  0.1  3424  2468 ??  Is     8:29AM    0:00.11 sshd:
thehoff [priv] (sshd)
thehoff  27836  0.0  0.1  3396  1912 ??  S      8:29AM    0:00.03 sshd:
theh...@ttyp0 (sshd)
thehoff   4730  0.0  0.0   480   408 p0  Is     8:29AM    0:00.00 -ksh (ksh)
root     23806  0.0  0.0   476   460 p0  S      8:29AM    0:00.01 -ksh (ksh)
root     15249  0.0  0.0   276   276 p0  R+/1   8:53AM    0:00.00 ps -aux
root     25718  0.0  0.0   408   736 C0  Is+    1Mar10    0:00.00
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC0
root     30984  0.0  0.0   300   736 C1  Is+    1Mar10    0:00.00
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC1
root      7406  0.0  0.0   256   740 C2  Is+    1Mar10    0:00.00
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC2
root      1736  0.0  0.0   336   728 C3  Is+    1Mar10    0:00.00
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC3
root      1371  0.0  0.0   440   736 C5  Is+    1Mar10    0:00.00
/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyC5
bmr1.brh#

load averages:  0.08,  0.09,
0.08
08:52:43
12 processes:  11 idle, 1 on processor
CPU0 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.2% interrupt, 99.8%
idle
CPU1 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  8.1% system,  0.0% interrupt, 91.9%
idle
Memory: Real: 5220K/351M act/tot  Free: 2916M  Swap: 0K/8197M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE     WAIT      TIME    CPU COMMAND
29797 root       2    0 3424K 2468K idle      netio     0:00  0.00% sshd
27836 thehoff    2    0 3396K 1912K sleep/0   select    0:00  0.00% sshd
    1 root      10    0  324K  296K idle      wait      0:00  0.00% init
 8898 root       2    0  708K 1200K idle      select    0:00  0.00% sshd
23806 root      18    0  476K  460K sleep/0   pause     0:00  0.00% ksh
32058 root      28    0  712K 1420K onproc/1  -         0:00  0.00% top
 4730 thehoff   18    0  480K  408K idle      pause     0:00  0.00% ksh
25718 root       3    0  408K  736K idle      ttyin     0:00  0.00% getty
 1736 root       3    0  336K  728K idle      ttyin     0:00  0.00% getty
30984 root       3    0  300K  736K idle      ttyin     0:00  0.00% getty
 1371 root       3    0  440K  736K idle      ttyin     0:00  0.00% getty
 7406 root       3    0  256K  740K idle      ttyin     0:00  0.00% getty

I suspect that there is some device in there that is being polled in some
funky way
as this only happens on these specific boxes. Even the fujitsu box marked as
"kaputt" with
red marker pen works as charm.

/T

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