Hi, We have noticed in a Cassandra Cluster , one of the node has 100% cpu utilization, using top we can see that cassandra process is showing futex_wait .
We are on CentOS release 6.10 (Final) .As per below document the futex bug was on Centos 6.6 . https://support.datastax.com/hc/en-us/articles/206259833-Nodes-appear-unresponsive-due-to-a-Linux-futex-wait-kernel-bug Below are the installed patches. sudo rpm -q --changelog kernel-`uname -r` | grep futex | grep ref - [kernel] futex: Mention key referencing differences between shared and private futexes (Larry Woodman) [1167405] - [kernel] futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a barrier (Larry Woodman) [1167405] - [kernel] futex: Fix errors in nested key ref-counting (Denys Vlasenko) [1094458] {CVE-2014-0205} - [kernel] futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix (Danny Feng) [566347] {CVE-2010-0623} top - 21:23:34 up 93 days, 10:43, 1 user, load average: 137.35, 147.74, 148.52 Tasks: 658 total, 1 running, 657 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 93.9%us, 1.9%sy, 2.0%ni, 2.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st Mem: 132236016k total, 129681568k used, 2554448k free, 215888k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 93679880k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ WCHAN COMMAND 7725 cassandr 20 0 258g 40g 13g S 2302.0 32.4 305169:26 futex_wai java 69075 logstash 39 19 10.5g 1.5g 14m S 42.1 1.2 6763:00 futex_wai java 30008 root 20 0 465m 55m 11m S 11.5 0.0 0:02.78 poll_sche TaniumClient 31785 cassandr 20 0 34.9g 31m 10m S 4.9 0.0 0:00.15 futex_wai java 5154 root 20 0 1523m 6260 1300 S 3.0 0.0 1073:05 hrtimer_n collectd 1129 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 294:55.87 kjournald jbd2/dm-0-8 64173 root 20 0 1512m 71m 13m S 1.3 0.1 0:55.69 futex_wai TaniumClient Any idea , what else can be looked for high CPU issue? Thanks Surbhi