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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:10:54AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> What is the sysmon kernel thread, and why does it eats 3% of system time =
on=20
> my idle file server?
>=20
> USER   PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ   RSS TTY    STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> root     2  6.0  0.7    0 22996 ?      DK    6:09PM 105:54.88 [sysmon]
>=20
> It's such a CPU hog that intractive shell usage is a pain...

Wouldn't you happen to undergo an interrupt storm?

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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