Mike, You bring up a good point about CFS' need for good process time accounting. I think that this upstream patch may fix a lot of problems: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=8a22b9996b001c88f2bfb54c6de6a05fc39e177a
This patch is in 2.6.34.7, may not be in the 10.04 kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708920 Title: Strange 'fork/clone' blocking behavior under high cpu usage on EC2 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs