[64studio-devel] IRQ-23 process

[Steve A]

AMD64 1.4.1

There is a process named IRQ-23 - for me it is consuming on average 3% of 
CPU continually.

Is this normal? (I've not noticed it before)

tux at 64studio:~$ top

top - 23:44:40 up  2:32,  2 users,  load average: 0.05, 0.27, 0.20
Tasks: 109 total,   1 running, 108 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.7%us,  0.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.3%id,  0.0%wa,  2.7%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   1017924k total,  1006920k used,    11004k free,    17256k buffers
Swap:  1534168k total,        0k used,  1534168k free,   731320k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  615 root     -81  -5     0    0    0 S  2.7  0.0   4:13.41 IRQ-23
4116 root      15   0  145m  31m 8216 S  2.3  3.1   2:20.63 Xorg
4487 tux       15   0  139m  10m 8420 S  0.3  1.1   0:02.05 gnome-cups-icon
8513 tux       15   0 10596 1312  948 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.12 top
    1 root      18   0  6120  680  556 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.73 init
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 posix_cpu_timer
    4 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.16 softirq-high/0
    5 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 softirq-timer/0
    6 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 softirq-net-tx/
    7 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.09 softirq-net-rx/
    8 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 softirq-block/0
    9 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 softirq-tasklet
   10 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 softirq-sched/0
   11 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 softirq-rcu/0
   12 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 desched/0
   13 root      -2  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.04 events/0

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