Re: High load average (~2.0) on an idle PowerPC 64 machine

2011-03-25 Thread Nathan Lynch
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 09:23 +, David Laight wrote: > We also have the related fubar (on x64/amd64) of the > kernel generating stack traces for processes that are > sleeping uninterruptibly for long periods. Turn off CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK? ___ Lin

High load average (~2.0) on an idle PowerPC 64 machine

2011-03-25 Thread David Laight
> I've this Quad G5 machine that's sitting pretty much idle with the > latest Debian stable installed, and yet it's got an abnormaly high > load average. The 'load average' value is rather useless since it seems to contain any process that is sleeping uninterruptibly, and IIRC any process that has

Re: High load average (~2.0) on an idle PowerPC 64 machine

2011-03-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 21:23 +0100, Romain Goyet wrote: > I there, > > I've this Quad G5 machine that's sitting pretty much idle with the > latest Debian stable installed, and yet it's got an abnormaly high > load average. > I've detailed the situation over here, maybe you guys will find it > inte

High load average (~2.0) on an idle PowerPC 64 machine

2011-03-24 Thread Romain Goyet
I there, I've this Quad G5 machine that's sitting pretty much idle with the latest Debian stable installed, and yet it's got an abnormaly high load average. I've detailed the situation over here, maybe you guys will find it interesting or have something to say : http://serverfault.com/questions/2