On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > from out of nowhere last night, i suddenly had six journalctl > processes running on my quad core, each one running at 99% CPU, > causing the cooling fans to be running full speed. > > and now this morning, the fans suddenly kick in again, i check, > there's two journalctl processes, again each one running at 99%. is > this something new? oh, wait, now there's three. and now dnf joins > the party at 98.9%, and fans are now running full speed. thoughts? bit of a followup, now up to four "journalctl" processes running, and from "ps -ef", the abort handler seems awfully busy, i have numerous processes of the form: /bin/sh -c if grep '^TracerPid:[[:space:]]*[123456789]' ... and just now, got "A problem occurred with gdb ...". argh. i just did a yum update and got a new kernel, so i think i'll reboot and see if that changes anything. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test