Hello, I am seeing higher idle load averages for kernels above 6.17. This is seen on multiple machines, with both x86_64 and aarch64 CPUs.
These machines are really sitting idle and observed for many days. As an example, on a same x86_64 host: $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 6.17.5-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:49:03 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ uptime 20:25:39 up 2:26, 10 users, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00 $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 7.0.3-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 01 May 2026 15:49:22 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ uptime 20:39:45 up 10 min, 10 users, load average: 0.08, 0.13, 0.09 It's hard to know if it pertains to the upstream kernel itself, or to Arch's kernel. Of course it's not huge in absolute values, yet higher that what I been seeing for years. I am drawing your attention to this in the hope of a confirmation and perhaps later an improvement. Thanks for considering and regards.
