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 ...
can you attach the output of ps ax please ?
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.
ok, reopen if it reoccurs.