What is nash-hotplug and why is it consuming 100% CPU?

[DanL@VPSLink]

Thank you for your report - pkill -9 nash should be run from your rc.local startup script to prevent this issue.

Our template developers have been advised to take a look at the openSUSE template.

[DanL@VPSLink]

Our template developers report that the OpenSUSE 11.0 template should include the killall -9 nash-hotplugs command - please let us know if you encounter this issue with a fresh installation.

Note: Additions or modifications to your rc.local file should allow the killall command to execute first to ensure this issue does not affect performance on your VPS.

[mtomsovic]

FYI -

I was having this problem too, although it wasn't a full 100% it was chewing up ~50%.

/etc/rc.local already had

pkill -9 -f nash

issuing 'pkill -9 nash' from a command prompt killed the process.

Ubuntu 8.04.

[mtomsovic]

Rebooted the os and the process is still there after boot. It kills fine, but doesn't seem to do it automatically.

[GuyPatterson]

Originally Posted by mtomsovic

Rebooted the os and the process is still there after boot. It kills fine, but doesn't seem to do it automatically.

For debian/ubuntu:

update-rc.d -f nash remove

And the service should no longer start at boot.

[DanL@VPSLink]

Originally Posted by mtomsovic

Rebooted the os and the process is still there after boot. It kills fine, but doesn't seem to do it automatically.

I was unable to find any support requests under your forum contact e-mail related to this issue.

Please send me a private message with a recent ticket number or the hostname of the VPS which this behavior was encountered on - we'd be happy to take a look.