When I am writing many files on NFS volume, then a ksoftirq and an rpciod are consuming many CPU.
Issue
- When I am writing many files on NFS volume, then a ksoftirq and an rpciod are consuming many CPU.
top - 21:14:54 up 2 days, 9:47, 1 user, load average: 2.16, 2.22, 2.23 Tasks: 376 total, 3 running, 373 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.1%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 87.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 12.5%si, 0.0%st Mem: 49454064k total, 42047256k used, 7406808k free, 266396k buffers Swap: 52428116k total, 388k used, 52427728k free, 40589480k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 36 root 39 19 0 0 0 R 99.9 0.0 1461:21 ksoftirqd/11 48 root 39 19 0 0 0 R 95.9 0.0 1245:24 ksoftirqd/15 5590 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 4.0 0.0 215:08.52 rpciod/15
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Subscriber exclusive content
A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase of over 48,000 articles and solutions.
Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.
