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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