Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 May 2011 15:37:15 +0200 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: msleep() an load average |
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On 05/04/2011 02:11 PM, Eibach, Dirk wrote: > while(1) msleep_interruptible(1000); > > I appreciate their admiration, but still there are doubts in my mind: Is > this code really any better?
Try to send it a signal, it will eat 100% of CPU without sleeping.
> Is the loadavg metric broken beyond repair?
No, this is expected behaviour. Uninterruptible sleeps count as I/O load.
regards, -- js
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