Invisible process killing the CPU

[Nagy László Zsolt]

>> [ systat -vmstat 1 ]
>>     
>>> Namei         Name-cache    Dir-cache               4960 prcfr
>>>       
>>                                                       ^^^^
>>
>> Looks like processes on this system are forking at a rate of 5000/sec.
>>     
>
> Ouch, that's pages freed by exiting processes, not process forks (gotta
> get some sleep). Anyway, if this is persistent, then some processes are
> exiting all the time, and they have to get created somehow, so the
> scenario is the same...
>   
Now the CPU is almost idle. :-) However, the prcfr value is still 
between 400 and 500. Is that normal?

  Laszlo