Apoligies if this list is supposed to be solely about distribution
politics. But I've an operational curiosity...
Does anyone know why the ipmi_si module and kipmi0 thread are so busy on a
totally quiet pristine Fedora 10 install?
I've installed minimialist and done nothing but a few tests. But they're
already acumulating *way* to many clicks.
# lsmod |grep ipmi
ipmi_si 47564 0
ipmi_msghandler 39288 1 ipmi_si
# ps -fp `pgrep ipmi`
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1492 2 0 Nov30 ? 00:04:12 [kipmi0]
# egrep 'CPU|ipmi' /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6
CPU7
21: 9215 407 334886 114 6969 406 334900
109 IO-APIC-fasteoi ipmi_si
Hardware is an HP ProLiant G5 with no vendor crud installed.
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