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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Mobile: ++49 170 1876134 Snail: Kiebitzstr. 14, 49324 Melle, Germany | | Ampr: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [44.130.8.19] | - 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/