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On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> > G'day, |
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> > |
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> > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my |
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> > new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. |
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> > Right after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing |
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> > anything out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy |
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> > usb and sd and sr drivers in the kernel ). |
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> > |
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> > I had Ubuntu on this thing for a week or so as I needed something quick |
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> > fast when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an issue when |
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> > I had that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. Also, its not an |
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> > issue when I boot up via live cd ( sysrescuecd ). |
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> > |
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> > I've tried different cpufreq governors ( default is ondemand ) and that |
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> > doesn't appear to be an issue. |
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> > |
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> > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. |
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> > |
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> > Thanks. |
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> |
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> I've never known what those numbers represent (I know it is "load |
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> average", but what it means, and what is the range, I have no idea)... |
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> Anyway, it seems mine are always around 1+. It's not perfectly idle |
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> but not running seti or anything intensive either. |
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I remember trying to google the meaning of those numbers once. It was VERY |
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hard to find out what they were. It's something like, average number of |
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processes in the running or ready to run states for the last 1, 5 & 15 |
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minutes. |
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Shawn |
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