On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson <b...@thehenderson.com> 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.
I've never known what those numbers represent (I know it is "load average", but what it means, and what is the range, I have no idea)... Anyway, it seems mine are always around 1+. It's not perfectly idle but not running seti or anything intensive either. I wonder if NO_HZ has some effect on it? I think I remember reading something about it measuring timeslices... and all kinds of mathematics that I can't even begin to comprehend.
