Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

[Beau Henderson]

Fearing I might have stripped out something I shouldn't have in my .config ,
loaded up a defconfig and selected my appropriate options. This has the same
effect. I've also tryed the ~ kernel to no avail.

This has got me stumped.



On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:56 AM, <podge@××××××××.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 09:20:22 Beau Henderson wrote:
>> > G'day,
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my
>> > new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use.
>> Right
>> > after boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing
>> anything
>> > out of ordinary in dmesg ( asside from an non issue with legacy usb and
>> sd
>> > and sr drivers in the kernel ).
>> >
>> > I had Ubuntu on this thing for a week or so as I needed something quick
>> > fast when my workstation chipfan died on me and this wasn't an issue
>> when I
>> > had that installed so I think I can rule out hardware. Also, its not an
>> > issue when I boot up via live cd ( sysrescuecd ).
>> >
>> > I've tried different cpufreq governors ( default is ondemand ) and that
>> > doesn't appear to be an issue.
>> >
>> > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> Is updatedb or some similar indexer running? Being a new install it might
>> still be building its index for the first time.
>>
>> I've noticed before that processes in io-wait seem to count towards the
>> load
>> average, even though they might not be actually using the CPU that much.
>>
>> Shawn
>>
>>
> Nope, nothing. Top shows all 0's under CPU. Nothing appears to be doing
> anything at all.
>
> As an example:
>
> top - 09:25:20 up  1:31,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.92
> Tasks:  65 total,   1 running,  64 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   4145288k total,   328960k used,  3816328k free,    21112k buffers
> Swap:  8377856k total,        0k used,  8377856k free,   256796k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> COMMAND
>
>  5273 root      20   0  2428 1108  876 R    0  0.0   0:03.71
> top
>
>     1 root      20   0  1744  504  444 S    0  0.0   0:00.28
> init
>
>     2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
> kthreadd
>
>     3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
> migration/0
>
>     4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02
> ksoftirqd/0
>
>     5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
> migration/1
>
>     6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02
> ksoftirqd/1
>
>     7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
> events/0
>
>     8 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01
> events/1
>
>     9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00
> khelper
>
> --
> Beau Dylan Henderson
>
> "No human being should be denied the fundamental right to educate
> themselves or indulge their curiosities. To deny any person the right to do
> so, for whatever reason, is nothing more than the safeguarding of ignorance
> to ensure that enlightenment does not become a threat. For nothing in this
> world is more dangerous than an open mind." -- Matthew Good
>



-- 
Beau Dylan Henderson

"No human being should be denied the fundamental right to educate themselves
or indulge their curiosities. To deny any person the right to do so, for
whatever reason, is nothing more than the safeguarding of ignorance to
ensure that enlightenment does not become a threat. For nothing in this
world is more dangerous than an open mind." -- Matthew Good