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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> G'day, |
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> I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my new |
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> Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. Right after |
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> boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing anything out of |
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> ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy usb and sd and sr |
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> drivers in the kernel ). |
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> I had Ubuntu on this thing for a week or so as I needed something quick fast |
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> when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an issue when I had |
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> that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. Also, its not an issue |
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> when I boot up via live cd ( sysrescuecd ). |
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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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> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. |
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> Thanks. |
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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 wonder if NO_HZ has some effect on it? I think I remember reading |
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something about it measuring timeslices... and all kinds of |
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mathematics that I can't even begin to comprehend. |
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