Hi! > PS: I'm using the kernel with Gentoo patchset. But I confirmed the above > persists with the vanilla kernels. > > PPS: I also played around with the timer frequency, and premption model. > Would those make a difference to CPU usage?
Yes. Or rather, it will make accounting more accurate, so that you see that 1% cpu usage, unlike previous kernels where something still ate cpu but kernel did not know it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/