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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: "Anders Boström" <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:13:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702D086.3000005@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>

Anders Boström wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My computer suffers from high load average when the system is idle,
> introduced by commit 44d306e1508fef6fa7a6eb15a1aba86ef68389a6 .
> 
> Long story:
> 
> 2.6.20 and all later versions I've tested, including 2.6.21 and
> 2.6.22, make the load average high. Even when the computer is totally
> idle (I've tested in single user mode), the load average end up
> at ~0.30. The computer is still responsive, and the only fault seems
> to be the too high load average. All versions up to and including
> 2.6.19.7 is fine, and don't suffer from the problem.
> 


can you tell me if you're tuning ext3 in any way to have a much 
shorter timeout than the standard 5 seconds?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 23:14 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 [this message]
2007-10-03  7:04   ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03  9:40 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski

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