On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:18:10AM +0000, Thomas Ribbrock wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:28:27PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
> > I just put Guiness on two machines, and I've noticed that when I come to the
> > systems after a long idle time, the load is right around 1. I have
> [...]
> > efficient when it's sitting there at night in a sleeping state. No point in
> > wasting power...
>
> Wild guess: I have seen that happening on machines that slow down the
> CPU when they go "sleeping" - hence, the different processes still
> running (screen saver, maybe the odd daemon) could be queuing for CPU
> time a bit longer - after all, load 1 only means, that one process is
> waiting for CPU time all the time.
That's what I'm thinking. I've found that this load boost (beyond 1
sometimes) isn't continuous, but about every 1/2 hr (one time in the width of
the default xload window). I've checked the logs, but nothing there.
(BTW, I've noticed that "rmmod" runs every 10 minutes, but I can't find an
entry for that in the /etc/crontab file, where the heck is that called from?
And where does the stuff in "/etc/cron.d" get called?)
I'm going to try turning off xscreensaver and see if that makes a
difference...
-Michael
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