mick wrote:
I am having a lot of trouble with one of my VPSs - a new one I bought for threepence halfpenny from ThrustVPS.
It's a shame, but if you pay peanuts, you usually get monkeys. ThrustVPS appear to be externalising their support costs onto users and so onto LUGs?
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The only process I can see which may be responsible is a kernel process called events/1 which is chewing silly amounts of cpu - see top display below.
I have a vague memory of a server at a client site that was going something similar because of a race between something like hald and the kernel, but I can't lay my hand on the right logbook to say how it was cured or if it was a software or hardware fault. I'd be slightly surprised if a hardware fault affected a VPS, though.
If I were you, I'd be checking all logs, trying to turn up kernel logging verbosity and maybe reading the fine source to see what appears in ps as events/1.
Good luck and please let ALUG know the answer to your riddle when you find it!