top showing high load and high priority of ksoftirqd

ksoftirqd with high load (text/plain), 1.58 KB, created by Richard Walter on 2007-12-30 20:17:54 UTC

top - 20:41:30 up 38 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.83, 0.75, 0.79
Tasks:  38 total,   3 running,  35 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.6%us,  1.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 37.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 59.6%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    401368k total,    62400k used,   338968k free,     2076k buffers
Swap:   292724k total,        0k used,   292724k free,    42076k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    3 root      15  -5     0    0    0 R 59.9  0.0  23:15.33 ksoftirqd/0
 4769 richard   20   0  2624 1308 1040 R  1.6  0.3   0:02.10 top
    1 root      20   0  1784  716  612 S  0.0  0.2   0:03.00 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.11 events/0
    5 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.11 khelper
   58 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 kblockd/0
   66 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.32 kseriod
   85 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
   86 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
   87 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
   88 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
   89 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cifsoplockd
   90 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cifsdnotifyd
   92 root      15  -5     0    0    0 R  0.0  0.0   0:00.08 led_wq
  719 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
  768 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rpciod/0