[svlug] klogd uses 30% to 60% CPU all the time?

[Erik Steffl]

  I noticed that klogd uses a lot of CPU cycles:

  3:03pm  up 13:33,  3 users,  load average: 2.93, 2.56, 2.13
59 processes: 54 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  82.5% user,  17.5% system,   0.0% nice,   0.0% idle
Mem:   79704K av,  70324K used,   9380K free,  27596K shrd,   1636K buff
Swap: 243104K av, 160448K used,  82656K free                 23708K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
COMMAND
  135 root      16   0   128   24    16 R       0 31.6  0.0 577:17 klogd
 5162 erik      17   0 11200 6332  4476 R       0 31.6  7.9   0:35
freeamp

  any ideas why?

  I check the files in /var/log and all are fairly short (max few
pages/screens for today and yesterday), I am not sure where the klogd
writes the logs (it's ran without arguments so all messages end up in
syslog?). it doesn't look like it's busy writing anything (the disk is
not busy).

  my system: debian unstable, kernel 2.2.14

  this might be related:

jojda:~>top
{__delay} {strnicmp}
Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel data.

  after these messages top runs...

  I run the kernel that was compiled using source in /usr/src/linux, but
I have recompiled since changing some config params (modules), and I
didn't reinstall kernel, just the modules. everything seems to be
working, except of these messages here and there (i think I've seen the
same message som place else). any ideas on this one?

  TIA

	erik