What is causing high CPU "system" time?
Issue
Constant CPU consumption of 20% of the CPU sys (kernel time).
procs -----------memory---------------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------
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13 1 3722308 472224 98212 166903616 123 0 93309 3836 15564 42670 12 31 57 1 0 05:01:01
9 0 3721968 461912 98784 166957280 12 0 115933 1829 15050 42663 11 31 58 0 0 05:02:01
9 0 3721964 470808 99244 166976288 0 0 119748 1775 15342 38101 10 27 63 0 0 05:03:01
7 0 3721964 469164 99596 166965280 0 0 116719 1791 15195 36408 10 26 64 0 0 05:04:01
12 0 3721964 454212 100004 166962944 0 0 117444 1632 16523 41308 9 26 64 0 0 05:05:01
10 0 3721964 483584 99748 166882400 0 0 113418 1781 16821 43998 10 27 64 0 0 05:06:01
9 0 3721968 460820 99848 166923040 0 0 122266 1770 18985 63617 10 27 63 0 0 05:07:01
9 0 3721968 455848 99872 166933360 0 0 179514 1650 19263 68173 10 27 63 0 0 05:08:01
6 0 3721964 458844 99724 166970496 0 0 119711 1624 20101 46560 9 23 67 0 0 05:09:01
6 0 3721964 475580 99712 167005792 0 0 136124 1649 28558 68558 9 23 68 0 0 05:10:01
9 0 3722156 466828 100068 167017248 1 1 118878 1674 27738 64769 10 24 66 0 0 05:11:01
9 0 3722240 455664 100156 167035616 0 0 116729 1768 17742 35043 9 22 69 0 0 05:12:01
6 0 3722300 453596 100340 167044560 0 0 143485 1515 20246 41549 9 22 69 0 0 05:13:01
11 0 3722300 460668 99956 167010416 0 0 168932 1644 19711 53847 9 21 70 0 0 05:14:01
6 0 3722300 465712 97724 167001088 0 0 209824 1745 19885 69023 9 22 69 0 0 05:15:01
10 0 3722288 462160 97576 166991440 1 0 172998 1767 19013 67610 9 22 69 0 0 05:16:01
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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