The thread of "CPU 0 /KVM" keeping 99.9%CPU Hi Expert: The VM is hung here after (2, or 3, or 5 and the longest time is 10 hours) by qemu-kvm. Notes: for VM: OS: RHEL 7.6 CPU: 1 MEM:4G For qemu-kvm: 1) version: /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -version QEMU emulator version 2.10.0(qemu-kvm-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.4.1) 2) once the issue is occurred, the CPU of "CPU0 /KVM" is more than 99% by com "top -p VM_pro_ID" PID UDER PR NI RES S % CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 872067 qemu 20 0 1.6g R 99.9 0.6 37:08.87 CPU 0/KVM 3) use "pstack 493307" and below is function trace Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f2572e73040 (LWP 872067)): #0 0x00007f256cad8fcf in ppoll () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x000055ff34bdf4a9 in qemu_poll_ns () #2 0x000055ff34be02a8 in main_loop_wait () #3 0x000055ff348bfb1a in main () 4) use strace "strace -tt -ff -p 872067 -o cfx" and below log keep printing 21:24:02.977833 ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=80, events=POLLIN}, {fd=82, events=POLLIN}, {fd=84, events=POLLIN}, {fd=115, events=POLLIN}, {fd=121, events=POLLIN}], 9, {0, 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 (Timeout) 21:24:02.977918 ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=80, events=POLLIN}, {fd=82, events=POLLIN}, {fd=84, events=POLLIN}, {fd=115, events=POLLIN}, {fd=121, events=POLLIN}], 9, {0, 911447}, NULL, 8) = 0 (Timeout) 21:24:02.978945 ppoll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=80, events=POLLIN}, {fd=82, events=POLLIN}, {fd=84, events=POLLIN}, {fd=115, events=POLLIN}, {fd=121, events=POLLIN}], 9, {0, 0}, NULL, 8) = 0 (Timeout) Therefore, I think the thread "CPU 0/KVM" is in tight loop. 5) use reset can recover this issue. however, it will reoccurred again. Current work around is increase one CPU for this VM, then issue is gone. thanks Cliff