High idle CPU usage from udevd

Bug #801151 reported by Garrett Sides
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #780266: udevd takes 100% of cpu. Edit Remove
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udev (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

It's happened before (since Natty was released) where the CPU fan would spin up and the CPU usage would rise (as I could see on Syspeek) and never come back down, in the past I thought it was from my meddling with Plymouth and Kernel setting, but on this Natty install neither of those things have been done. Now my CPU idles at 30-60% even with no other programs running, and the boot time has increased dramatically along with this problem.

I ran top -n 1 | head -n 12 to look at the processes and their usage, which is what lead me to udev and here's the output:
top - 09:17:27 up 37 min, 2 users, load average: 0.81, 1.02, 1.01
Tasks: 276 total, 2 running, 271 sleeping, 0 stopped, 3 zombie
Cpu(s): 28.2%us, 9.6%sy, 0.9%ni, 55.7%id, 5.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 7935908k total, 2560884k used, 5375024k free, 156648k buffers
Swap: 8117244k total, 0k used, 8117244k free, 881148k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
  570 root 16 -4 150m 130m 336 S 62 1.7 12:20.77 udevd
22597 garrett 20 0 159m 5076 3076 S 23 0.1 6:35.66 gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
  585 root 18 -2 21604 1040 352 S 8 0.0 2:32.60 udevd
22616 root 20 0 134m 5236 3120 S 6 0.1 2:49.20 udisks-daemon
23521 garrett 20 0 176m 8460 5708 S 6 0.1 2:22.04 gdu-notification-daemon

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: udev 167-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 23 09:20:57 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /sbin/udevd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: Gateway DX4300
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=5fbe7f6c-4ae2-4959-b049-c135e717a12b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: udev
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/24/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P01-A1
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: RS780
dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.0
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP01-A1:bd04/24/2009:svnGateway:pnDX4300:pvrP01-A1:rvnGateway:rnRS780:rvrRev1.0:cvnGateway:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: DX4300
dmi.product.version: P01-A1
dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway

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Garrett Sides (garrettsides) wrote :
description: updated
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Garrett Sides (garrettsides) wrote :

I've figured out what triggers the high CPU usage, not sure how I never noticed it before. Whenever a USB storage device (my flash drive, my nook, or my phone, but not things like my printer) the problem starts and persists until they are removed then the system is rebooted

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Garrett Sides (garrettsides) wrote :

Here is the (partial) output of sudo udevadm monitor --e

It's a partial from when the SEQNUM was in the 6000s, but it had been going for a while flying through numbers and it kept going even into the 15000s and higher before I ejected the flash drive

Changed in udev (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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