Does /var/log/* have any clues?
Philippe Meunier wrote on 11/15/16 06:11:
Hello, I'm just curious: what is it in the kernel that wakes up about every minute to do some work even on a completely idle machine? I'm asking because xload shows some curious looking saw shaped load like this: http://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/home/meunier/xload.jpg That's on an idle Thinkpad T43 running OpenBSD 6.0-release. At first I thought it might be something like cupsd, but even after killing daemons one by one and going to single user mode these regular peaks still continue. So I guess it's due to some kernel thread? I tried to use "top -S" but couldn't figure out the source. Does anyone have any idea of how to find it? Thanks, Philippe
