From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Timothy Normand Miller <theosib@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem: Load average of 6, no I/O, 25% idle time. Why?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:28:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216387716.28405.45.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9871ee5f0807180549l58e849d9ge6e7deee3d0c37fa@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 08:49 -0400, Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
> I have a four processor box, running three compute loads. The kernel
> I'm running is 2.6.25-gentoo-r5.
>
> One process has four threads, and it's niced to 19.
> Another process has one thread and is niced to -10
> The last process has one thread and is niced to 0
>
> One processor is always idle.
>
> If I change either the 0 to a -10 or the -10 to a zero, then all four
> cores are properly utilized.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone? Besides messing with the nice levels,
> is there another way to fix this?
Please share at least your .config when reporting such issues.
Furthermore, could you try .26 and or Linus' latest -git to see if the
issue is still present?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 12:49 Problem: Load average of 6, no I/O, 25% idle time. Why? Timothy Normand Miller
2008-07-18 13:28 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-07-18 13:59 ` Timothy Normand Miller
2008-07-18 22:12 ` Timothy Normand Miller
2008-07-19 9:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-20 23:39 ` Timothy Normand Miller
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