Load average 1.0 on idle machine

Brian D. Carlstrom bdc at carlstrom.com
Sun May 14 17:16:56 EST 2006


Juergen Kreileder writes:
 > with both 2.6.16.11 and 2.6.17-rc4 my PowerMac G5 Quad shows a load
 > average of 1.0 when the machine is completely idle (just kernel, init,
 > and bash running).

I see this as well, with the load coming from "kwindfarm". I just
assumed this was expected because of the userlevel thermal control
versus the older in kernel code for the PowerMac7,2 and 7,3 machines.

-bri



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