Re: 2.6.22 - Suspend and Weird Load Averages

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday, 18 July 2007 16:50, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 July 2007 15:51, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> > 
> > For the first time since 1997 I have a machine (Mac Mini) running a 
> > stock kernel which I am suspending/resuming for 2 days now without any 
> > problems. Amongst the various hardware and kernel versions that I've 
> > used so far this combination is the first to suspend/resume without issues!
> > 
> > But one thing that annoys me a bit is that the load averages spike up 
> > quite a bit after resume although it doesn't feel like the machine is 
> > loaded  -
> > 
> > Before Resume -
> > parag@parag-desktop:~$ uptime
> >  09:35:14 up  5:18,  2 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.87, 1.00
> > After Resume -
> > parag@parag-desktop:~$ uptime
> >  09:36:37 up  5:18,  2 users,  load average: 12.53, 3.83, 1.98
> > parag@parag-desktop:~$
> > 
> > Is this a known problem?
> 
> I think so.
> 
> This probably is due to the freezing of tasks.  Namely, the frozen tasks
> are in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and add to the load average.
> 
> > Worth fixing? 
> 
> Cartainly.

s/Cartainly/Certainly/