Hi My loadav (using kernel 2.6.9 and above) in my guest kernels is always at least 1.0... does anyone else get this?
top - 10:20:34 up 2:21, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.92 Tasks: 46 total, 2 running, 44 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 100.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 199632k total, 114624k used, 85008k free, 13700k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 54680k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 16 0 1328 448 400 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.02 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 R 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper >From watching top it looks like ksoftirqd is always runnable - it looks like >it isn't eating any CPU, but why is isn't it sleeping like it is on a real kernel? top - 10:22:21 up 3:55, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.12, 0.03 Tasks: 104 total, 1 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.7% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1293448k total, 437540k used, 855908k free, 41944k buffers Swap: 1959920k total, 0k used, 1959920k free, 238280k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 9330 root 15 0 157m 25m 6472 S 0.3 2.0 2:37.79 X 1 root 16 0 1380 504 444 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 events/0 4 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 16 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.06 kacpid 120 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 Cheers! Dave ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user