Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

Mark Lord
2007-10-02T23:40:29Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:46:18 -0400
>> On a related note, {set/get}itimer() currently are buggy (since
>> 2.6.11 or so), also due to this round_jiffies() thing I believe.
>
> I very much believe that it is totally unrelated... most of all since
> round_jiffies() wasn't in the kernel then an also isn't used anywhere
> near these timers.

Ah, yes, you're correct. The itimer routines do their *own* rounding.

-ml