[rhev] Why is ksmd running non-stop and consuming a high amount of CPU time?

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Issue

  • Why is ksmd running non-stop and consuming a high amount of CPU time?:
PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR %CPU S %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
262 root      25   5     0    0    0 73.4 R  0.0  5126049h ksmd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5.
  • vdsm version 4.16.27-1 or earlier.

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