tons of udevd instances

wakkadojo · 2009-08-27 12:51:49

I updated udev recently, and now for some reason I get 100 udevd instances:

$ ps -A | grep udevd | wc -l
100

What is wrong here? This is annoying since these processes combined are eating up a good portion of CPU.

Last edited by wakkadojo (2009-08-27 12:52:35)

silverhat · 2009-08-27 13:55:56

Same issue here, I have 79 udevd, waste 25% CPU, 150 MB Ram

TamCore · 2009-08-27 19:16:22

Same Problem here. At the moment i limit the cpu usage with `cpulimit -e /sbin/udevd -l 1`. Its not the best solution, but it helps.

Runiq · 2009-08-27 23:26:10

Similar, but I only have two instances. Doesn't seem to be a bug in Arch, though - I've seen it on the Ubuntu Jaunty bugtracker too. Rolling back to an older kernel version seemed to help there. Now if I only could find the corresponding flyspray entry...

<edit>Does anyone of you possibly have an integrated Intel GM45 chipset? I do. This thread might cover the same issue.

<edit 2>Now it's 108 instances. Highscore!

Last edited by Runiq (2009-08-28 08:26:11)

jt512 · 2009-08-28 02:01:10

Runiq wrote:

Similar, but I only have two instances.

That's my problem. High cpu usage, two udevd instances. Rolling-back udev solved the problem, but also had to roll back a number of dependencies.

Jay

toflames · 2009-08-29 15:38:34

Hi,

I've got the same problem after update, two udev process eating a lot of CPU time.
But in my case the boot took also realy longer, "Waiting for udev uevent" took more than 3min at each boot!
So I downgraded it too...

wakkadojo · 2009-08-29 16:38:52

I just downgraded as well. There was a dependency conflict (the new gstreamer needed the new udev), but I ignored it. I doubt it's anything serious.

EDIT

Intel GM45 chipset here

Last edited by wakkadojo (2009-08-30 03:01:53)

R00KIE · 2009-08-29 21:41:32

No problems here ... 3 udevd instances at it behaves. AMD Turion X2 with Ati RS690 chipset here.

MartinZ · 2009-09-02 01:16:54

jt512 wrote:

Runiq wrote:
Similar, but I only have two instances.
That's my problem. High cpu usage, two udevd instances. Rolling-back udev solved the problem, but also had to roll back a number of dependencies.
Jay

Same here. It seems to happen just after resuming, not after a clean start.

wakkadojo · 2009-09-10 23:56:09

Problem persists with the new udev-146 version

Bogart · 2009-09-11 01:18:44

Do people having this problem know if it is the same or related to the one described here?

Basically, if you have a G45 chipset and in a terminal you type (as root): "udevadm monitor" and get lots of messages (when the problem starts), it's probably the same. Otherwise it might be completely unrelated.

If it is the same bug, it is not related to udev, it is a kernel bug introduced in 2.6.30. It is already reported and it's being investigated.

jt512 · 2009-09-11 01:49:46

Bogart wrote:

Do people having this problem know if it is the same or related to the one described here?
Basically, if you have a G45 chipset and in a terminal you type (as root): "udevadm monitor" and get lots of messages (when the problem starts), it's probably the same. Otherwise it might be completely unrelated.
If it is the same bug, it is not related to udev, it is a kernel bug introduced in 2.6.30. It is already reported and it's being investigated.

I doubt it is the same problem. There were no excess udevd processes or excess cpu usage by udevd, using kernel 2.6.30, until udev was upgraded to 145-1, and reverting to udev 141-5 alleviates the problem.

Jay

tomd123 · 2009-09-11 01:55:49

No problem here, running linux kernel 2.6.31 with intel 945gm video.
udev only has 3 instances

ugkbunb · 2009-09-11 06:15:56

3 instances here... running 2.6.30 - bfs kernel

MartinZ · 2009-09-11 14:06:42

Running udevadm monitor gives me thousands of messages

I have Intel PM45 chipset and Nvidia 9600M GT video card.

As jt512 said, I think is an udev related bug because downgrading it solves the problem.

wakkadojo · 2009-09-26 01:24:38

MartinZ, I also have an Intel PM45 with NVIDIA 9600M GT, and I also get thousands of messages when running udavadm. I wonder if this will ever be fixed. If not, it will only be a matter of time before many programs will be incompatible with similar systems since so many depend on udev.

Last edited by wakkadojo (2009-09-26 01:55:29)

wakkadojo · 2009-10-11 06:37:20

New kernel/NVIDIA drivers did not resolve the problem

Runiq · 2009-10-11 08:42:12

Arch bug report, upstream bug report.

Seems to have something to do with the optical drive (as udevadm monitor --property suggests). If you can add anything valuable to the upstream report, please do

MartinZ · 2009-10-12 22:24:45

I just installed udev-stable from AUR and am happy now, though that's not a real solution...

Great, Gnome 2.28 doesnt work with udev 141.

Last edited by MartinZ (2009-10-14 00:59:57)

Gianfrix · 2009-10-21 20:02:52

Hi! I just tried Ubuntu 9.10 beta and I did not have problems with udev, that I found here on Arch with udev 146 (high CPU, lots of udev instances, etc)
I don't like Ubuntu too much (xD) so I tried to port ubuntu's udev to Arch

The result is this PKGBUILD: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31373

Everything works correctly: no high cpu, only 3 udev instances, GNOME 2.28 works right... try it if you have problems, it may help you

Also now udevadm monitor does not show any message regarding the optical drive...

UDev processing takes 13 seconds though, but it's better than infinite XD

Last edited by Gianfrix (2009-10-21 20:07:34)

jt512 · 2009-10-21 23:41:06

Gianfrix wrote:

Hi! I just tried Ubuntu 9.10 beta and I did not have problems with udev, that I found here on Arch with udev 146 (high CPU, lots of udev instances, etc)
I don't like Ubuntu too much (xD) so I tried to port ubuntu's udev to Arch
The result is this PKGBUILD: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31373

This indeed fixed my udev high cpu usage problem. So, thanks for the good work. There was one small problem, though: udev now loads the heinous pcspkr module, which I have blacklisted in rc.conf. I tried to prevent udev from loading it by putting "alias pcspkr off" in modules.conf, but that didn't work; but I was able to unload it using "modprobe -r pcspkr" in rc.local.

Anybody know a cleaner fix?

Jay

MartinZ · 2009-10-23 21:52:52

Gianfrix wrote:

Hi! I just tried Ubuntu 9.10 beta and I did not have problems with udev, that I found here on Arch with udev 146 (high CPU, lots of udev instances, etc)
I don't like Ubuntu too much (xD) so I tried to port ubuntu's udev to Arch
The result is this PKGBUILD: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31373
Everything works correctly: no high cpu, only 3 udev instances, GNOME 2.28 works right... try it if you have problems, it may help you
Also now udevadm monitor does not show any message regarding the optical drive...
UDev processing takes 13 seconds though, but it's better than infinite XD

Thanks, it works fine

checko55 · 2009-10-31 08:57:26

Gianfrix wrote:

Hi! I just tried Ubuntu 9.10 beta and I did not have problems with udev, that I found here on Arch with udev 146 (high CPU, lots of udev instances, etc)
I don't like Ubuntu too much (xD) so I tried to port ubuntu's udev to Arch
The result is this PKGBUILD: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31373
Everything works correctly: no high cpu, only 3 udev instances, GNOME 2.28 works right... try it if you have problems, it may help you
Also now udevadm monitor does not show any message regarding the optical drive...
UDev processing takes 13 seconds though, but it's better than infinite XD

hi!

when i try to install the package with yaourt i get following compile-error.
can you help me with this issue?

.
.
.
.
CCLD   extras/edd_id/edd_id
  CC     extras/floppy/create_floppy_devices.o
  CCLD   extras/floppy/create_floppy_devices
  CC     extras/path_id/path_id.o
  CCLD   extras/path_id/path_id
  CC     extras/fstab_import/fstab_import.o
  CCLD   extras/fstab_import/fstab_import
  CC     extras/scsi_id/scsi_id.o
  CC     extras/scsi_id/scsi_serial.o
In file included from extras/scsi_id/scsi_serial.c:28:
/usr/include/scsi/scsi.h:145: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'u8'
/usr/include/scsi/scsi.h: In function 'scsi_varlen_cdb_length':
/usr/include/scsi/scsi.h:156: error: 'struct scsi_varlen_cdb_hdr' has no member named 'additional_cdb_length'
make[2]: *** [extras/scsi_id/scsi_serial.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
    Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build udev-ubuntu package.

thx in advance

MartinZ · 2009-11-29 04:34:11

udev 147-1 in testing seems to (finally) have solved the problem

mukul_s · 2009-11-29 12:08:55

MartinZ wrote:

udev 147-1 in testing seems to (finally) have solved the problem

how to get it from testing??
Also, can more people confirm this...

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