[PLUG] Time to downgrade?

[म.हा.सा.ग.र]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Shridhar Daithankar
<ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 18:14:01 म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote:
>> How do i find out the state of CPU?
>
> Mostly using top.
>
>> Swap memory is not getting utilized much, nor is the memory usage by kmail.
>>
>> CPU is getting hogged to near 100% by kmail which looks like a trouble
>> sign for me.
>
> Hmm.. Last try before giving up. Can you run strace -o kmail.strace -p <pid of
> kmail> and look thr. the generated kmail.strace file? Hit ^C when kmail
> returns to normal. See if kmail is waiting for something.
>

thanks for help from all...

Here is a part of strace...
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read(10, 0x8dad2dc, 4096)               = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12003, 477594114}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12003, 477809225}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12003, 477947791}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12003, 478079092}) = 0
read(10, 0x8dad2dc, 4096)               = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=20,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=21, events=POLLIN}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN},
{fd=23, events=POLLIN}, {fd=22, events=POLLIN}, {fd=27,
events=POLLIN}, {fd=26, events=POLLIN}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN}], 13,
0) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12003, 478516857}) = 0
read(10, 0x8dad2dc, 4096)               = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {12003, 478761581}) = 0
read(10, 0x8dad2dc, 4096)               = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)

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I am also wondering if this has got anything to do with *TSC clock
source unstable*  message that i am getting for last few days...
which maybe related to cmos battery?  But can that battery cause a
problem when i am on M.S.E.D.C.L supply ?

anything else to look for?