Bug 173740 - loadavg always above 2...
Summary: loadavg always above 2...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-20 09:36 UTC by Thomas M Steenholdt
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-12-02 23:30:22 UTC
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Description Thomas M Steenholdt 2005-11-20 09:36:23 UTC
Description of problem:

It looks like, for whatever reason, loadavg adds 2 to the real runqueue average
numbers. On my completely idle system, /proc/loadavg reports 2.00 2.00 2.00.

Other than that loadavg appears to work, increasing with load and dropping again
after removing load.

This is on a Pentium M system.

The last kernel checked was kernel-2.6.14-1.1688_FC5 which still exhibited this
problem.

I have no idea how deep this goes, but i'm guessing that at least some userspace
utils will misbehave because of this.

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /proc/loadavg
  
Actual results:

2.xx 2.xx 2.xx ...

Expected results:

0.xx 0.xx 0.xx ...

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-12-01 19:56:54 UTC
can you attach the output of ps ax please ?


Comment 2 Thomas M Steenholdt 2005-12-02 08:51:31 UTC
Problem does not seem to occur after I have updated to test1. Fact is that I did
not check for any stuck process, so that would explain this phenomenon.


Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-12-02 23:30:22 UTC
ok, reopen if it reoccurs.


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