I was access /dev/cpu/0msr, but it was hang there. (eg. cat /dev/cpu/0/msr, I cann't kill(-9) the cat.). And take almost 100% CPU. ------------------------- [root@rh5.7 tmp]# strace ./read1 -p 0 regno execve("./read1", ["./read1", "-p", "0", "regno"], [/* 32 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0xad62000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b81d3f2a000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b81d3f2b000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64/tls/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64/tls/x86_64", 0x7fff26103510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64/tls", 0x7fff26103510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64/x86_64", 0x7fff26103510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/gridengine/lib/lx26-amd64", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/opt/openmpi/lib/tls/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/openmpi/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fff26103510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/opt/openmpi/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/openmpi/lib/tls", 0x7fff26103510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/opt/openmpi/lib/x86_64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/openmpi/lib/x86_64", 0x7fff26103510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/opt/openmpi/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/opt/openmpi/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=43552, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 43552, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x2b81d3f2c000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\220\332\1D2\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1722304, ...}) = 0 mmap(0x3244000000, 3502424, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x3244000000 mprotect(0x324414e000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x324434e000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x14e000) = 0x324434e000 mmap(0x3244353000, 16728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x3244353000 close(3) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b81d3f37000 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x2b81d3f376e0) = 0 mprotect(0x324434e000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x3243e1c000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x2b81d3f2c000, 43552) = 0 open("/dev/cpu/0/msr", O_RDONLY) = 3 pread(3,