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Subject: Re: High CPU load when machine is idle (related to PROBLEM:
 Unusually high load average when idle in 2.6.35, 2.6.35.1 and later)
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
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On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:27 +0200, Damien Wyart wrote:
> 
> Should'nt we enlarge the list of CC, because for now, responsivity has
> been close to 0 and it seems we will get a 2.6.36 with buggy load avg
> calculation. Even if it is only statistics, many supervision tools rely
> on the load avg, so for production environments, this is not a good
> thing. 

It already contains all the folks who know the code I'm afraid.. :/

I've been playing with it a bit more today, but haven't actually managed
to make it better, just differently worse..