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Subject: Re: Load average 1.0 on idle machine
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 00:56 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with both 2.6.16.11 and 2.6.17-rc4 my PowerMac G5 Quad shows a load
> average of 1.0 when the machine is completely idle (just kernel, init,
> and bash running).

Must be a kernel thread blocking with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE... maybe the
thermal code, I'll have to check.

Ben.