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  1. Bug #30570
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 30570

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 30570] Re: CPU usage very high with no running tasks using it

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 03:30 +0000, barakaspeed wrote:
> I installed the updates and seemed to still have the high cpu usage in
> 686 (after disabling the fix above) I reinstated the fix and I'm back
> down to 4-5% usage. I don't think the kernel updates helped much for
> me. I vaguely remember that the email stated it was more of a security
> update for the kernel.

It was about 50/50 fixes+security.

The main thing was dropping the HZ from 1000 to 250, which should have
fixed the problem.

If it didn't for you, then we're looking at a different issue.