[systemd-devel] systemd "looping too fast" after an automatic attempt to restart anacron

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 28.03.15 10:49, Alberto Bertogli (albertito at blitiri.com.ar) wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I noticed by chance that systemd was using ~15% of a CPU in my laptop,
> according to top.
> 
> This is on Debian testing, systemd 215-12.
> 
> The machine has been up since January, but this started to happen
> earlier today, while I was asleep, and it seems to be correlated with an
> automatic restart of anacron.
> 
> The 3.18.3 kernel was built from vanilla sources and has never had
> problems with systemd so far.
> 
> I asked on #systemd and they suggested me to post here, following up
> with the information requested at
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028541.html
> (which seems to be a similar problem, if not the same).
> 
> So below I paste some general information that I sent on IRC, the gdb
> output as requested in the email from February, and some information about the
> suspicious anacron restart.
> 
> 
> I hope this helps! I won't restart systemd for a day or two (unless it
> gets worse, I can spare 15% of a CPU), so if there's any other
> information you need, please let me know.

Hmm, so unfortunately the logs you posted didn't really help me to
figure out what is going on... However, 215 is already pretty old, and
before I spend more time on debugging this, any chance you can check
with 219 or so, maybe it was fixed already in the meantime?

Thanks,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat