Mark Post wrote:

>Since I upgraded to the 2.4.19 kernel, I've noticed that my loadavg is
>always 1.00 or higher, never lower, even when idling.  I'm presuming this is
>a bug of some sort.

I seem to recall we've fixed this already but I can't remember the
details :-(

Could you check, when the machine is idle, whether there is one process
(presumably a kernel thread) that sleeps uninterruptibly (i.e. state D)
instead of interruptibly (i.e. state S)?  If so, that's the cause of
load 1, because D is counted towards the load.

Once the thread is identified, we'll need to fix the corresponding
code to use interruptible sleep instead.

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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