On Wednesday 18 February 2009 09:20:22 Beau Henderson wrote: > G'day, > > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my > new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. Right > after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing anything > out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy usb and sd > and sr drivers in the kernel ). > > I had Ubuntu on this thing for a week or so as I needed something quick > fast when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an issue when I > had that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. Also, its not an > issue when I boot up via live cd ( sysrescuecd ). > > I've tried different cpufreq governors ( default is ondemand ) and that > doesn't appear to be an issue. > > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks.
Is updatedb or some similar indexer running? Being a new install it might still be building its index for the first time. I've noticed before that processes in io-wait seem to count towards the load average, even though they might not be actually using the CPU that much. Shawn
