Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756639AbXJCHOs (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 03:14:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752956AbXJCHOl (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 03:14:41 -0400 Received: from ernst.netinsight.se ([212.247.11.2]:61403 "HELO ernst.netinsight.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752007AbXJCHOk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 03:14:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:04:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20071003.090423.-2529196.anders@netinsight.se> To: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle From: Anders =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bostr=F6m?= In-Reply-To: <4702D086.3000005@linux.intel.com> References: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> <4702D086.3000005@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 28 >>>>> "AvdV" == Arjan van de Ven writes: AvdV> Anders Bostr?m 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. AvdV> can you tell me if you're tuning ext3 in any way to have a much AvdV> shorter timeout than the standard 5 seconds? No, I'm using the standard 5 seconds timeout. / Anders - 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/