2009/2/18 Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com>
> Shawn Haggett 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. >> >> Shawn >> >> >> > googling "load average" brings me to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_%28computing%29>which > explains it somewhat. > > HTH > > Matt > > install htop, order process by CPU % and check which one is eating your CPU.
