Greasemonkey: 2001 Chevy Impala - Hard Start

Seems like I run into enough car problems that I should start logging my experiences with them. Thus, I’ll be creating a new section titled “Greasemonkey” with all of my mechanical-repair escapades.
To kick it off, let me tell the story of my wife’s 2001 Chevy Impala recent repair. About 2 months ago it started losing [...]

100% / High CPU usage by udev and/or nscd

At work we had an FC3 system that had apparently undergone an abrupt reboot or power outage. After it came back up, the CPU usage was at 100%, so bad that I could not run top. Stopping httpd and nscd seemed to help make the system responsive, though udev kept working hard.
Deleting /var/run/nscd and /var/db/nscd, [...]