From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: "Anders Boström" <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:13:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4702D086.3000005@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 21:37 PROBLEM: high load average when idle Anders Boström
2007-10-02 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-02 22:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:46 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 23:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 23:40 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 23:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-02 22:33 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-02 23:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 17:32 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-03 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 18:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-03 20:15 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03 18:34 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-02 23:13 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-10-03 7:04 ` Anders Boström
2007-10-03 9:40 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
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