Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261629AbVEBEv6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 00:51:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261631AbVEBEv6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 00:51:58 -0400 Received: from mahonia.com ([216.99.203.20]:11405 "EHLO mischief.mahonia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261629AbVEBEv4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2005 00:51:56 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc3-mm2 - kswapd0 keeps running From: Mark McPherson Reply-To: mark@mahonia.com To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 21:51:54 -0700 Message-Id: <1115009515.22963.12.camel@mischief.mahonia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 28 Hi, I have noticed since well back in the 2.6.11-mmX series that top always reports the load average as 1.00 unless and until I kill apcupsd [an APC ups daemon]. If I do that the load average swiftly drops to 0.00 when the computer is idle. Thought it was likely an application issue but perhaps it is related so maybe I had better mention it. I'm pretty sure the 2.6.12-rcX Linus tree does the same thing, while vanilla 2.6.11 and the -ac tree don't display this behavior. apcupsd doesn't seem to actually use excessive resources -- CPU or memory -- even if I let it run for a long time, and the CPU temperature remains at the correct idle value when idle [even though the load average is reported as 1.00]. I don't see corresponding behavior with kswapiod here after a day of uptime with 2.6.12-rc3-mm2. Cheers, Mark -- Mark McPherson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/