From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934786AbXGYSaU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:30:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765116AbXGYSaI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:30:08 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:3014 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752194AbXGYSaG (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:30:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:39:20 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Parag Warudkar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: 2.6.22 - Suspend and Weird Load Averages Message-ID: <20070725133919.GA9256@ucw.cz> References: <469E1AFE.7010108@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <469E1AFE.7010108@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > 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? Worth fixing? Known, and Rafael/Nigel have patches to fix that. OTOH I'm not sure it is a problem -- lets just say that suspend is hard work and therefore it raises load avg? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html