This article seems to have the fix: Upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy – emvs and udevd 100% cpu usage – aka udevd going nuts One typo I noticed: He refers to /etc/init.d/udevd instead of /etc/init.d/udev. The corrected steps:# apt-get remove evms# /etc/init.d/udev stop# /etc/init.d/udev start Full set of articles on evms