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Subject: Re: High load average (~2.0) on an idle PowerPC 64 machine
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On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 09:23 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> We also have the related fubar (on x64/amd64) of the
> kernel generating stack traces for processes that are
> sleeping uninterruptibly for long periods.

Turn off CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK?