Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757962AbXJCMCx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:02:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754867AbXJCMCq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:02:46 -0400 Received: from relay1.mail.vrmd.de ([81.28.232.18]:48756 "EHLO relay1.mail.vrmd.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755166AbXJCMCp (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:02:45 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 8487 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:02:45 EDT Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:40:10 +0000 From: Thorsten Kranzkowski To: Anders Bostr?m Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle Message-ID: <20071003094010.GA635@ds20.borg.net> Reply-To: dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de Mail-Followup-To: Thorsten Kranzkowski , Anders Bostr?m , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org References: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071002.233731.119908363.anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Relay-User: dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1997 Lines: 47 On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:37:31PM +0200, Anders Bostr?m wrote: > Hi! > > My computer suffers from high load average when the system is idle, > introduced by commit 44d306e1508fef6fa7a6eb15a1aba86ef68389a6 . Another datapoint: I observe a similar effect on both of my alphas: top - 09:30:43 up 13 min, 18 users, load average: 0.65, 0.64, 0.44 Tasks: 76 total, 1 running, 75 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.1% id, 0.2% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2067792k total, 55792k used, 2012000k free, 4160k buffers Swap: 1048560k total, 0k used, 1048560k free, 18752k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 637 root 15 0 2904 1552 1192 R 1 0.1 0:01.35 top 556 root 15 0 2008 528 432 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 gpm 1 root 15 0 1960 800 680 S 0 0.0 0:01.43 init 2 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 7 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 This is the dual-ev6 one, currently 2.6.22-rc5. I didn't bother to do any investigation, yet ;-) > This fixes the problem: I'll check this evening. Bye, Thorsten -- | Thorsten Kranzkowski Internet: dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de | | Mobile: ++49 170 1876134 Snail: Kiebitzstr. 14, 49324 Melle, Germany | | Ampr: dl8bcu@db0lj.#rpl.deu.eu, dl8bcu@marvin.dl8bcu.ampr.org [44.130.8.19] | - 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/