FWIW, the 2.6.36-rc3 kernel (modified only with some desktop responsiveness patches) shows a much lower rate of load balancing ticks. On my system 2.6.35.4 (unmodified) was showing 50-60 ticks per second, or 35-40 with the load balancing patches, while 2.6.36-rc3 is showing around 15-22.
-- Tens of wakes per second in "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick" on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524281 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs