From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.10 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: After stopping and continuing the kupdated process by sending it a SIGSTOP followed by a SIGCONT, the process uses up 100% CPU time and continues to do so until the machine is rebooted (or kupdated is stopped again). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-13.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kill -STOP `pidof kupdated` 2. kill -CONT `pidof kupdated` 3. top Actual Results: kupdated shows close to 100% CPU usage in the 'top' display. Expected Results: kupdated remains a background process, as after a fresh boot. Additional info: This bug causes problems with noflushd which uses SIGSTOP to suspend kupdated when the hard disk is spun down. Downgrading to kernel-2.4.20-13.8 from Red Hat 8.0 solves the issue. A stock 2.4.20 kernel also doesn't show this behavior.
This problem is also present in the current (2.4.22-1.2149.nptl) kernel. Simply issuing the command killall -STOP kupdated will cause kupdated to consume 88% or more (typically over 90%) of the cpu. All attempts to bring the cpu usage down short of a reboot have not been successful.
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