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On Wednesday 18 February 2009 09:20:22 Beau Henderson 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 |
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> new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. Right |
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> after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing anything |
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> out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy usb and sd |
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> and sr drivers in the kernel ). |
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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 I |
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> 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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> 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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Is updatedb or some similar indexer running? Being a new install it might |
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still be building its index for the first time. |
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I've noticed before that processes in io-wait seem to count towards the load |
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average, even though they might not be actually using the CPU that much. |
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Shawn |