On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Shawn Haggett <po...@podgeweb.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: >> 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 remember trying to google the meaning of those numbers once. It was VERY > hard to find out what they were. It's something like, average number of > processes in the running or ready to run states for the last 1, 5 & 15 > minutes.
I just ignore them because they are meaningless to me. The active CPU percentages seem to be based in Earthly reality. :) Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain what a "1" means versus a "2" or whatever. Paul
