Spamming of cpu errors in lxd.daemon in /var/log/messages

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

  • lxcfs spamming /var/log/messages with logs "lxc.payload.container has unexpected cpu time; unable to determine idle time"
date: <hostname> lxd.daemon: proc_fuse.c: 880: proc_stat_read: cpu16 from /lxc.payload.dms-grid-nappljobs-K has unexpected cpu time: 7108190 in /proc/stat, 9706556 in cpuacct.usage_all; unable to determine idle time

date: <hostname> lxd.daemon: proc_fuse.c: 880: proc_stat_read: cpu17 from /lxc.payload.dms-grid-nappljobs-K has unexpected cpu time: 13922346 in /proc/stat, 24269832 in cpuacct.usage_all; unable to determine idle time

Resolution

  1. These messages are from lxd daemon which is a 3rd Party daemon and not supported from Redhat.

  2. Please engage the application vendor for assistance

Diagnostic Steps

  • LXC lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.

Sorting out the process from lxc:

$ cat ps | grep -i lx
user       1831  0.0  0.0   4628   724 ?        Ss      0:00 /bin/sh /snap/lxd/17299/commands/daemon.start
user       3263  0.6  0.0 3212420 13644 ?       Sl     86:07 lxcfs /var/snap/lxd/common/var/lib/lxcfs -p /var/snap/lxd/common/lxcfs.pid
user       3657  0.3  0.1 3835396 218208 ?      Sl     45:06 lxd --logfile /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/logs/lxd.log --group lxd
user       4104  0.0  0.0  41000 11396 ?        SN      0:55 /UC4/bin/ucxjlx6-LNX_S089L4410
user       9193  0.0  0.0 1229132 22300 ?       Ss      0:38 [lxc monitor] /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers dms-centralservices-nappl-K1
user      10965  0.0  0.0 1230540 20388 ?       Ss      0:39 [lxc monitor] /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers dms-enviam-nappl-K1

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