Since last week that I run an apt-get upgrade on my machine,bI observe a very high and periodically CPU usage for perl process
21392 112 39 19 10332 7552 3592 R 53.0 1.5 0:01.63 perl
426 root 20 0 5088 2476 2256 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.33 `- cron
24709 root 20 0 6484 2560 2200 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.03 `- cron
24713 112 20 0 1900 1100 1024 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 `- sh
24714 112 20 0 4604 2640 2476 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.02 `- copy-local-and-
24719 112 20 0 1900 1204 1128 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 `- refile-and-grok
24725 112 20 0 3536 1516 1436 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 `- xargs
24726 112 20 0 1900 1076 1004 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 `- refile-and-grok
24728 112 39 19 18592 15008 4996 R 91.2 3.0 0:06.70 `- perl
The process ID changes every time the perl process comes up.
UPDATE
root@raspberrypi:/var/ftp# ps -ef | grep perl
112 25971 25969 91 13:42 ? 00:00:20 perl /usr/share/dsc-statistics-presenter/dsc-xml-extractor
root 25981 22322 0 13:42 pts/0 00:00:00 grep perl
That process always run since I have my server up and running. It seems that got that high CPU usage since I updgrade perl, per-base and perl modules from 5.20.2-3+deb8u5 to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6. I'm trying to rollback but I m not able to do it
root@raspberrypi:/var/ftp# apt-get install perl=5.20.2-3+deb8u5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '5.20.2-3+deb8u5' for 'perl' was not found
root@raspberrypi:/var/ftp#
Anyone can help me to identify the reason of such high cpu usage or roll-back the upgrade done?
Best Answer
DSC: A DNS Statistics Collector
The program is written in perl, but this isn't a Perl problem. You're using DSC. In order to solve this we would have to know what version of DSC you're using. My suggestion is to upgrade to a newer version of DSC.
You may be experiencing the bug fixed on 2015-10-09