Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02T23:14:16Z

Anders Boström wrote:
> Hi!
>
> My computer suffers from high load average when the system is idle,
> introduced by commit 44d306e1508fef6fa7a6eb15a1aba86ef68389a6 .
>
> Long story:
>
> 2.6.20 and all later versions I've tested, including 2.6.21 and
> 2.6.22, make the load average high. Even when the computer is totally
> idle (I've tested in single user mode), the load average end up
> at ~0.30. The computer is still responsive, and the only fault seems
> to be the too high load average. All versions up to and including
> 2.6.19.7 is fine, and don't suffer from the problem.
>

can you tell me if you're tuning ext3 in any way to have a much
shorter timeout than the standard 5 seconds?