We are in the process of upgrading our product to RHEL6 os. And during setting of SELinux contexts using semanage commands we see 100 % CPU usage as below top - 19:22:33 up 1:00, 1 user, load average: 1.25, 1.15, 1.58 Tasks: 171 total, 2 running, 169 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 24.7%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 75.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 6113004k total, 5841096k used, 271908k free, 22600k buffers Swap: 2047992k total, 0k used, 2047992k free, 5078044k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4189 root 20 0 575m 410m 3296 R 100.0 6.9 0:08.17 semanage 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.48 events/2 60 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:00.41 khugepaged 3337 root 20 0 15088 1396 1020 R 0.3 0.0 0:01.29 top 11471 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:14.53 kipmi0 1 root 20 0 19396 1532 1208 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.10 init.real 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 migration/0 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 migration/1 8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/1 10 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 migration/2 12 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/2 14 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/2 15 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 migration/3 16 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/3 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/3 18 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/3 19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 events/1 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.89 events/3 23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pm 28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 sync_supers 29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 bdi-default 30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0 31 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1 32 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/2 33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/3 You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@vos-cm144 ~]# ps -efZ | grep semanage system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 root 4189 4188 96 19:22 ? 00:00:12 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/sbin/semanage user -a -P user -R sysadm_r system_r specialuser_u Is this an expected behavior . Thanks, Anamitra -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux