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On Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Shawn Haggett <podge@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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 |
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> >> > my new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in |
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> >> > use. Right after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not |
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> >> > seeing anything out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue |
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> >> > with legacy 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 |
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> >> > quick fast when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an |
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> >> > issue when I had that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. |
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> >> > Also, its not an 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 |
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> >> > that 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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> > |
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> > I remember trying to google the meaning of those numbers once. It was |
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> > VERY hard to find out what they were. It's something like, average number |
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> > of processes in the running or ready to run states for the last 1, 5 & 15 |
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> > minutes. |
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> I just ignore them because they are meaningless to me. The active CPU |
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> percentages seem to be based in Earthly reality. :) |
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> Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain what a "1" means versus |
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> a "2" or whatever. |
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AFAIR: |
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it is the number of process/task ready to run at the same time. 1 means there |
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is one task that 'wants' to run/is running, 2 are two and so forth. |
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