Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:54:12 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.35.6 |
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:32:08PM -0400, tmhikaru@gmail.com wrote: > I'm not exactly sure what's going on here and I'd like some help > figuring out what is. For some inexplicable reason, ever since I started > using the 2.6.35.x series with the 2.6.35.3 release, my loadaverages tend to > bounce anywhere from as low to .2 to 1.5 - constantly, while the machine > seems idle.
But .34 doesn't show this issue?
If so, can you run 'git bisect' between the .34 and .35 releases to find out where the problem comes in?
> Consistently, there are no programs in D state in ps aux output, > no cpu hogging programs running in top, nothing I can see that should > explain the bizzarely high load average.
Loadaverage can be affected by a driver doing an uninteruptable sleep. This doesn't actually cause a load on the system, but it does affect the way that number is calcuated. Perhaps that's the problem here.
> If you have any tips or recommendations on what I should use to > investigate this further, please let me know. Once I have ensured to my own > satisfaction that I'm not doing something bizzare that's screwing up my > machine, I'll make a detailed bug report and start on figuring out how to > use git bisect.
'man git-bisect' will help with this :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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