Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Anders Bostr?m <anders@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 7:40 pm

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
quoted text> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:46:18 -0400
>> On a related note, {set/get}itimer() currently are buggy (since
>> 2.6.11 or so), also due to this round_jiffies() thing I believe.
> 
> I very much believe that it is totally unrelated... most of all since
> round_jiffies() wasn't in the kernel then an also isn't used anywhere
> near these timers.

Ah, yes, you're correct.  The itimer routines do their *own* rounding.

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PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Anders , (Tue Oct 2, 5:37 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Thorsten Kranzkowski, (Wed Oct 3, 5:40 am)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 2, 7:13 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Anders , (Wed Oct 3, 3:04 am)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 2, 6:07 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Anders , (Wed Oct 3, 2:34 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Chuck Ebbert, (Tue Oct 2, 6:33 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 2, 7:26 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Chuck Ebbert, (Wed Oct 3, 1:32 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 3, 2:02 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Anders , (Wed Oct 3, 4:15 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Oct 3, 2:20 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Oct 3, 2:28 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Oct 3, 2:29 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 2, 6:32 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 2, 7:19 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Mark Lord, (Tue Oct 2, 6:46 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 2, 7:22 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Mark Lord, (Tue Oct 2, 7:40 pm)

Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle, Arjan van de Ven, (Tue Oct 2, 6:39 pm)


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