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
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