Hi, I''m getting some excessive looking CPU time for ksoftirqd (on CPU0) when running Xen on a Hyperthreaded P4 3Ghz. Any one else seeing this?... [root@localhost ~]# top top - 21:35:23 up 1 day, 12:18, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00 Tasks: 53 total, 1 running, 52 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 86.0% id, 0.0% wa, 13.5% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 351960k total, 149568k used, 202392k free, 23152k buffers Swap: 3148732k total, 688k used, 3148044k free, 93588k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 150:58.34 ksoftirqd/0 215 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 7:35.51 xenblkd 1241 root 16 0 3948 560 468 S 0.0 0.2 3:45.44 nifd 1960 root 16 0 15680 9136 2564 S 0.0 2.6 3:42.15 python 1207 root 16 0 1788 476 404 S 0.0 0.1 2:29.08 irqbalance 6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 2:04.54 events/0 89 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:35.13 pdflush 90 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:23.78 pdflush 91 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:20.49 kswapd0 1958 root 16 0 2084 488 416 S 0.0 0.1 0:16.08 xcs 333 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:14.95 kjournald 1271 root 16 0 4340 1644 1356 S 0.0 0.5 0:06.49 sshd 1 root 16 0 3252 556 484 S 0.0 0.2 0:05.63 init 8203 root 16 0 7724 2236 1816 S 0.0 0.6 0:04.38 sshd 2134 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.81 loop0 1285 root 16 0 5288 808 696 S 0.0 0.2 0:02.01 crond 1197 root 16 0 2644 604 512 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.97 syslogd 1340 root 16 0 4632 2552 1564 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.71 hald 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.52 ksoftirqd/1 Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel