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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Thursday 19 February 2009 01:38:39 Beau Henderson wrote: |
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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 |
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> > something is causing the load and this might lead to shorter battery life |
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> > and and more heat. |
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> Right in the beginning you said the load was *exactly* 1.00. Now, load is |
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> defined as |
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> "the _number_ of processes on average waiting for the cpu in the last 1, 5, |
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> 15 |
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> minutes" |
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> So it does not mean that the cpu is necessarily working hard (but usually |
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> does) if the load is high. Yours is _exactly_ 1.00 (very suspicious) |
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> This is almost certainly one of two things: |
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> 1. A stupid kernel config that you should not have done :-) |
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> 2. Some app is blocking hard on IO |
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> I guess #2 - something waits for IO, it is not available, so immediately |
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> back to sleep waiting for it's next time slice. This happens many times a |
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> second and averaged over a minute looks like the cpu is constantly busy. |
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> Thus, |
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> no real extra cpu load is happening, the machine does not appear at all |
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> sluggish and the only harm is that it is annoying as hell. |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Woah, now were getting somewhere. |
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After reading that, I had another look at the top output and noticed that a |
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single hald process was in D state. /etc/init.d/hald stop and the load is |
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lowering as I type. I'm going to have to dig into this deeper as time |
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permits. |
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Thanks everyone :) |
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Beau Dylan Henderson |
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