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Why does the Mingetty process eat so much CPU time?

Asked by meinemitternacht in Linux Administration, Computer Servers, Fedora Linux

Tags: Red Hat, Fedora, 9, Virtual Private Server, Linux Process, Mingetty, eating cpu time

Ok, this isn't a normal process to be eating CPU, but it is.  I've attached the top command results, and would love to know why this process is eating so much CPU.  If I restart the VPS, the Top command results look awesome, everything's where it should be.  but after about a day or so, it gets this way.  Any suggestions? 
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[root@mitternacht ~]# top
top - 08:31:46 up 1 day, 20:10,  1 user,  load average: 3.90, 3.65, 3.44
Tasks:  34 total,   3 running,  31 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  9.1%us, 44.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 46.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1024000k total,   235636k used,   788364k free,        0k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,        0k cached
 
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
21622 root      18   0  2296 1000  808 R 26.1  0.1   0:02.00 top
22013 root      19   0  1732  548  488 S 26.1  0.1   0:02.00 mingetty
21755 root      20   0  1732  548  488 S 25.8  0.1   0:01.98 mingetty
21530 root      20   0  1728  544  488 S 19.4  0.1   0:01.98 mingetty
23762 root      19   0  1732  352  300 R 17.6  0.0   0:01.35 mingetty
23944 root      19   0  1732  352  300 R 16.1  0.0   0:01.23 mingetty
20306 root      18   0  1736  552  488 S 14.5  0.1   0:01.93 mingetty
    1 root      15   0  1876  844  632 S  0.0  0.1   0:13.00 init
13361 root      15  -4  2252  560  348 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 udevd
13952 root      15   0 29004 1052  712 S  0.0  0.1   0:29.19 rsyslogd
14042 root      15   0  7356 1060  664 S  0.0  0.1   0:08.84 sshd
14185 root      15   0 23872 6640 3768 S  0.0  0.6   0:00.86 httpd
14207 root      15   0  3448 1156  604 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.08 crond
 5594 root      19   0  2644 1192 1028 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 mysqld_safe
 5680 mysql     15   0  110m  19m 5172 S  0.0  1.9   0:23.79 mysqld
30043 apache    15   0 29548  10m 4612 S  0.0  1.1   0:05.36 httpd
30044 apache    15   0 29032  10m 4608 S  0.0  1.0   0:06.72 httpd
27974 apache    15   0 31216  13m 5284 S  0.0  1.3   0:07.98 httpd
30473 apache    15   0 29600  10m 4520 S  0.0  1.1   0:04.23 httpd
14152 apache    15   0 28564 9.8m 4400 S  0.0  1.0   0:04.37 httpd
23633 apache    15   0 30336  11m 4488 S  0.0  1.2   0:02.06 httpd
 9806 apache    15   0 29500  10m 4356 S  0.0  1.1   0:00.94 httpd
 3333 apache    15   0 29528  10m 4480 S  0.0  1.1   0:01.08 httpd
 3559 apache    15   0 29016  10m 4652 S  0.0  1.0   0:01.69 httpd
28545 apache    15   0 29504  10m 4524 S  0.0  1.1   0:01.34 httpd
19844 apache    15   0 30304  11m 3932 S  0.0  1.1   0:02.43 httpd
20058 apache    15   0 29532  10m 4592 S  0.0  1.1   0:02.34 httpd
20059 apache    15   0 29752  10m 3876 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.95 httpd
20060 apache    15   0 29532  10m 4264 S  0.0  1.1   0:01.09 httpd
17845 apache    15   0 27248   9m 3852 S  0.0  1.0   0:00.38 httpd
17798 root      15   0 10252 2908 2364 S  0.0  0.3   0:00.13 sshd
19900 root      15   0  2656 1444 1184 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 bash
24152 root      16   0  8700 2292 1872 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 sshd
24221 sshd      15   0  8704 1196  768 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.00 sshd
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