On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:51:51AM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > The load average on my machine is inexplicably high; when idle, it sits up > between 0.6 and 0.7. Though I'm running a snapshot from last night, I've > seen the same behaviour since I first installed a 4.4 snapshot from about > three weeks ago. This is on a Lenovo X200. > snip > > So, what exactly is my machine doing? Note that this doesn't really seem to > be causing me any grief: apmd is properly dropping my cpuspeed, hw.sensors snip
I bet you could get your load average to drop if you forced your cpu to run full speed even when doing nothing. I am guessing that this is not really what you want. -- Mark
