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To: Pasi Sjoholm <ptsjohol@cc.jyu.fi>
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Subject: Re: ksoftirqd uses 99% CPU triggered by network traffic (maybe
 RLT-8139 related)
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Pasi Sjoholm writes:

 > First run:
 > timestamp diff = 0, maxlat = 4581159

 Yes you starved your user apps for ~5 sec. 
 
 Any idea where your load comes from? Pure NFS network load cannot be hard.
 
 Cheers.
						--ro