Hi, On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 18:36, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 16:57, Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 1.) upon each boot udev would take 180 seconds to finish and >> ÂÂÂ allow the boot process to continue after the "waiting for /dev to >> ÂÂÂ be fully populated" message. >> 2.) when the system is booted doing "ps -e | grep udevd | wc -l" >> ÂÂÂ yields that I have 24 udevd processes running. >> 3.) when i start "top" I see that there is a udevd process running >> ÂÂÂ constantly consuming 100% cpu power. > >Any chance to attach: strace -p <pid> to that process? ah that was a good idea - did that. and indeed I got loads of "epoll_wait" messages spamming my terminal. but that doesnt tell me anything yet, right? >And what kernel version is that? 2.6.32 does it matter? i was also about to try bisecting udev from 167 to 168 but have to postpone that to later as the current debian sid perl 5.12 transition doesnt allow me to install the required build dependencies for udev in debian yet. but once that issue is resolved and I didnt find any other solution to the problem i will definitely bisect it to get to the source of the error. cheers, josch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
