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

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