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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com<paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:18 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> <podge <at> podgeweb.com> writes: |
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> >> > > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is |
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> causing |
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> >> > > 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 |
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> >> > > after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing |
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> >> > > anything |
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> >> > > out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy usb |
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> >> > > and sd |
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> >> > > and sr drivers in the kernel ). |
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> >> Ah, |
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> >> I have had a similar problem a few months ago on one system (AMD 64 X2). |
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> >> I never figured it out, but I suspect that rebuilding X, KDE and many |
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> >> other utilities over time, fixed it. X seems to use more resources than |
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> >> it should. But, in reality, after a while, it just went away. None of |
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> the |
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> >> other AMD 64 X2 systems I manage, had the problem. The load was always |
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> 1.0 |
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> >> or higher. |
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> >> |
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> >> I think I even posted to this list and we discussed the meaning of |
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> "load" |
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> >> too. |
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> >> Here's some good reading on "load average" |
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> >> http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/ |
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> > Hey, |
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> > I'm fairly comfortable with the definition of load average, that's not |
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> > something I need clarification on, but thanks to all whom have offered. |
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> > I'll fire up htop today and see if its able to identify anything that top |
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> or |
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> > ps hasn't as yet. |
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> > I'm relatively certain the issue isn't related to X or gnome as the load |
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> > shoots up immediately after boot up and the load issue happens even |
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> without |
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> > firing up startx. |
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> I wonder if the laptop could be going into some low-speed, low-power |
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> mode, causing it to seem "slow" and thus making the load seem |
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> artificially high? (assuming you're using CPU frequency scaling at |
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> all) |
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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 something |
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is causing the load and this might lead to shorter battery life and and more |
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heat. |
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htop doesn't seem to show anything either. |
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Just for shits n giggles I fired up powertop and implemented its |
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suggestions. No luck with that either unfortunately. This has me completely |
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baffled. |
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-- |
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Beau Dylan Henderson |
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"No human being should be denied the fundamental right to educate themselves |
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or indulge their curiosities. To deny any person the right to do so, for |
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whatever reason, is nothing more than the safeguarding of ignorance to |
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ensure that enlightenment does not become a threat. For nothing in this |
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world is more dangerous than an open mind." -- Matthew Good |
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