On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:34 PM Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Arnd, > > We regularly compile and test Linux kernels every day during the merge > window. Since Thursday last week we have very high CPU usage because of > the avahi daemon on our desktop Linux systems (Ubuntu, Debian etc). The > avahi daemon produces a lot of the following log message. This generates > high CPU usage. > > Error message: avahi-daemon[2410]: ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device > > strace /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon: > Thanks a lot for the detailed analysis, with this I immediately saw what went wrong in my original commit and I sent you a fix. Please test to ensure that this correctly addresses the problem. Arnd