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On Thursday 19 February 2009 01:38:39 Beau Henderson wrote: |
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> I've tried manually altering the governor to performance but its the same |
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> story. |
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> The system doesn't appear sluggish, I'm really more concerned that |
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> something is causing the load and this might lead to shorter battery life |
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> and and more heat. |
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Right in the beginning you said the load was *exactly* 1.00. Now, load is |
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defined as |
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"the _number_ of processes on average waiting for the cpu in the last 1, 5, 15 |
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minutes" |
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So it does not mean that the cpu is necessarily working hard (but usually |
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does) if the load is high. Yours is _exactly_ 1.00 (very suspicious) |
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This is almost certainly one of two things: |
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1. A stupid kernel config that you should not have done :-) |
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2. Some app is blocking hard on IO |
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I guess #2 - something waits for IO, it is not available, so immediately goes |
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back to sleep waiting for it's next time slice. This happens many times a |
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second and averaged over a minute looks like the cpu is constantly busy. Thus, |
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no real extra cpu load is happening, the machine does not appear at all |
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sluggish and the only harm is that it is annoying as hell. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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