2.6.14-rc1 load average calculation broken?

Jan Dittmer
2005-09-15T11:42:48Z

Get a steady 2.00 there. I stopped unnecessary processes etc.
load average seems to be invariant

top - 13:41:32 up 4:44, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
Tasks: 108 total, 2 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.7% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 515112k total, 319980k used, 195132k free, 58036k buffers
Swap: 1991976k total, 600k used, 1991376k free, 183836k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

15234 root 16 0 2196 1116 844 R 0.7 0.2 0:00.02 top

8368 jdittmer 15 0 4104 2200 1512 S 0.3 0.4 0:00.05 ssh

1 root 16 0 1796 628 532 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.11 init

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Jan