Subject: Re: Load average 1.0 on idle machine

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 09:44:33 +1000

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 00:56 +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with both 2.6.16.11 and 2.6.17-rc4 my PowerMac G5 Quad shows a load
> average of 1.0 when the machine is completely idle (just kernel, init,
> and bash running).

Must be a kernel thread blocking with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE... maybe the
thermal code, I'll have to check.

Ben.