Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:04:23 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle | From | Anders Boström <> |
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>>>>> "AvdV" == Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> writes:
AvdV> Anders Boström wrote: >> Hi! >> >> My computer suffers from high load average when the system is idle, >> introduced by commit 44d306e1508fef6fa7a6eb15a1aba86ef68389a6 . >> >> Long story: >> >> 2.6.20 and all later versions I've tested, including 2.6.21 and >> 2.6.22, make the load average high. Even when the computer is totally >> idle (I've tested in single user mode), the load average end up >> at ~0.30. The computer is still responsive, and the only fault seems >> to be the too high load average. All versions up to and including >> 2.6.19.7 is fine, and don't suffer from the problem.
AvdV> can you tell me if you're tuning ext3 in any way to have a much AvdV> shorter timeout than the standard 5 seconds?
No, I'm using the standard 5 seconds timeout.
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