Re: weird loadavg on idle machine post 5.7

Dave Jones
2020-07-02T19:46:08Z

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> When I upgraded my firewall to 5.7-rc2 I noticed that on a mostly
> idle machine (that usually sees loadavg hover in the 0.xx range)
> that it was consistently above 1.00 even when there was nothing running.
> All that perf showed was the kernel was spending time in the idle loop
> (and running perf).

Unfortunate typo there, I meant 5.8-rc2, and just confirmed the bug persists in
5.8-rc3.

Dave