[gentoo-amd64] Re: High CPU Usage From Kernel Process - kacpid

[Duncan]

Samir Mishra <sqmishra@×××.ae> posted 448D9A04.8030604@×××.ae, excerpted
below, on  Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:44:52 +0400:

> I have a dual Opteron WS. After being up for some time (running
> gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7, Xorg 7 & KDE 3.5) my system begins showing
> 100% CPU usage on one of the processors with the offending process,
> kacpid, using most of this. I know the first thing I need to do is
> recompile a new version of the kernel and see if the problem persists,
> but for now, is there some way for me t track down what's causing this?
>
> kacpid cannot be killed and the only workaround I've been able to use to
> stop my whole system from being "jerky" is to renice kacpid to a much
> lower priority of 19 from its original -5.

That's kernel-ACPI-daemon.  Take a look at the documentation in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/x86_64, particularly the ACPI section of
boot-options.txt.

If you haven't checked for BIOS updates recently, I'd suggest you do so. 
Often, those sorts of things are taken care of with a BIOS update.



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