lsof command is taking more CPU time.
Issue
- We are seeing continuously high CPU usage because of lsof commands
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25772 root 20 0 247092 129100 892 S 73.4 0.8 0:10.51 lsof
25828 root 20 0 151096 33140 892 S 71.8 0.2 0:02.71 lsof
25762 root 20 0 267844 149876 892 R 51.5 0.9 0:12.82 lsof
25774 root 20 0 119076 184 0 S 26.2 0.0 0:03.72 lsof
25830 root 20 0 119076 180 0 S 24.6 0.0 0:00.93 lsof
25764 root 20 0 119076 184 0 S 18.9 0.0 0:04.62 lsof
25836 root 20 0 126160 8160 892 R 18.9 0.1 0:00.57 lsof
25838 root 20 0 119076 180 0 S 6.6 0.0 0:00.20 lsof
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- kernel-3.10.0-327.el7
- lsof-4.87-4.el7
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