Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:49:38 -0400 | From | "Timothy Normand Miller" <> | Subject | Problem: Load average of 6, no I/O, 25% idle time. Why? |
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I have a four processor box, running three compute loads. The kernel I'm running is 2.6.25-gentoo-r5.
One process has four threads, and it's niced to 19. Another process has one thread and is niced to -10 The last process has one thread and is niced to 0
One processor is always idle.
If I change either the 0 to a -10 or the -10 to a zero, then all four cores are properly utilized.
Does this make sense to anyone? Besides messing with the nice levels, is there another way to fix this?
Thanks!
-- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project
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