Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with 2.6.29-rc2-git1

Damien Wyart
2009-02-15T19:18:18Z

> > Also, my guess is that if you boot via idle=poll, the symptoms go away.
> > This would strengthen the suspicion that it's scheduler-clock troubles.

> In fact, with idle=poll, the symptoms do not go away, they are much
> stronger: without it, ksotirqd have a few % of CPU in top output; with
> it, they have 20 or 30% and the global average is not far from 1.

Not true each time, in fact. Another try with this option gave same
symptoms as without it, not stronger. In any case, they never go away.

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Damien