From: Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de>
To: Anders Bostr?m <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com,
akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:40:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003094010.GA635@ds20.borg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:37:31PM +0200, Anders Bostr?m wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My computer suffers from high load average when the system is idle,
> introduced by commit 44d306e1508fef6fa7a6eb15a1aba86ef68389a6 .
Another datapoint: I observe a similar effect on both of my alphas:
top - 09:30:43 up 13 min, 18 users, load average: 0.65, 0.64, 0.44
Tasks: 76 total, 1 running, 75 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.1% id, 0.2% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2067792k total, 55792k used, 2012000k free, 4160k buffers
Swap: 1048560k total, 0k used, 1048560k free, 18752k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
637 root 15 0 2904 1552 1192 R 1 0.1 0:01.35 top
556 root 15 0 2008 528 432 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 gpm
1 root 15 0 1960 800 680 S 0 0.0 0:01.43 init
2 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
7 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
This is the dual-ev6 one, currently 2.6.22-rc5.
I didn't bother to do any investigation, yet ;-)
> This fixes the problem:
I'll check this evening.
Bye,
Thorsten
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 21:37 PROBLEM: high load average when idle Anders Boström
2007-10-02 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 22:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:46 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 23:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 23:40 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 23:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:33 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-02 23:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 17:32 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-03 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 20:15 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03 18:34 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-02 23:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 7:04 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03 9:40 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski [this message]
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