RHEL6: cachefilesd uses 100% of cpu
Issue
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'%CPU' of top-command becomes 100% when cachefilesd exec
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Checked top and found out that cachefilesd uses 100% of cpu resources.
# ps -eo pcpu,user,args | sort -k1 -nr | head
99.7 root cachefilesd -f /etc/cachefilesd.conf
7.0 foo /usr/bin/python /foo/bar
4.9 foo /usr/bin/python /foo/bar
4.8 foo /usr/bin/python /foo/bar
4.0 foo /usr/bin/python /foo/bar
3.1 foo /usr/bin/python /foo/bar
3.1 foo /usr/bin/python /foo/bar
1.6 foo sshd: foo@bar
1.4 root sshd: foo [priv]
1.4 foo sshd: foo@bar
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- seen on RHEL 6.3, RHEL 6.5
- cachefilesd userspace daemon, fscache (FS-Cache) kernel module
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