On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 11:40, Brad Laue wrote:
> This is a followup to my earlier mail 'ksoftirqd using mysteriously high
> amounts of CPU time'. After working briefly with Andrew Morton on the
> issue we seem to have identified the 'pppoe' userspace program as the
> culprit for that issue.
> 
> After some playing with kernel options I switched my PPPoE connection
> options from asynctty to synctty, and observed almost no usage of
> ksoftirqd/0 at all, as it should be.
> 
> However, the pppoe process maintains an extreme amount of CPU
> utilization, cutting off the machines ability to send and receive at its
> fastest possible rate. Additionally the attached error fills dmesg after
> a couple of days (vanilla 2.6.3 kernel).
> 
> I'm hoping the PPP stuff in the kernel is well enough maintained that a
> problem/solution can be identified..
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Brad

I apparently need to be reminded to actually attach attachments. :-)