modprobe cpu usage > 90 %

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On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:31, Hans Christian Studt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to restart iptables through the KDE gui services tool, and according to 'top' modprobe use > 90%, now for more than 5 minuttes, while the service gui is unavailable.
> 
> I probably wiil have to reboot to recover from this situation. 
> 
> I am using plain FC2
> Linux tux1700 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> top - 09:39:29 up 45 min, 11 users,  load average: 1.16, 1.00, 0.55
> Tasks: 113 total,   3 running, 109 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> Cpu(s): 11.6% us, 88.4% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Mem:    515848k total,   453428k used,    62420k free,    40724k buffers
> Swap:  1052216k total,        0k used,  1052216k free,   232000k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  3604 root      25   0  1896  428 1416 R 86.5  0.1   9:42.57 modprobe
>  2660 root      15   0 96648  10m  85m S  8.0  2.2   0:26.28 X
>  2863 hcs       15   0 30924  15m  26m S  2.0  3.1   0:03.11 kdeinit
>  2852 hcs       15   0 30596  16m  26m S  1.3  3.2   0:04.68 kdeinit
>  3203 hcs       15   0  159m  94m  34m S  1.0 18.7   0:41.55 mozilla-bin
>  2848 hcs       16   0 27336  13m  24m S  0.7  2.6   0:02.22 kdeinit
> 
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What happens if you don't use the gui?

What do the log files tell you?

Maybe the gui is broken.

service iptables restart in a terminal what happens?

Is you machine fully updated?

Ted