Jorge and Brian, Thanks for your input and ppa. Much appreciated. My reading of the kernel LKML discussion is that something rather serious was screwed up in the implementation of the nohz part of the kernel scheduler and that the patch was a first test of this idea. The results there and in this bug thread seem to confirm that suspicion but I would be more comfortable if the two kernel developers in that thread (Peter Zijlstra and Arjan Van de Ven) had further responded on the issue. Perhaps a Ubuntu kernel developer should engage with these devs on LKML to clear this issue up...
-- Tens of wakes per second in "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick" on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524281 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
