Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:49:46 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Johan Broman <je.broman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: load average 0.60 at 100% idle Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=TChT8x=ToxWdKiVj-HWJt9KgszQ0piosv=DrPmFB1Lg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFdmEo7rpcNSee_uQNd8rZWtsfrNys%2B9B0P-tLY=JHK3Qk9Rkg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFdmEo7rpcNSee_uQNd8rZWtsfrNys%2B9B0P-tLY=JHK3Qk9Rkg@mail.gmail.com>
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Cc'ing the committer / ACPI owner! jkim - any comments? Adrian On 5 January 2013 12:38, Johan Broman <je.broman@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Bare with me here as I'm totally new to FreeBSD (like 2 weeks). > > From what I understand, there is a change in FreeBSD 9.1 ACPI code > that makes detection of devices happen earlier? This can result in > eventtimer irqs being shared with another device and can therefor > throw off tools reporting load avg values (they report constantly > around 0.60 in load). I guess there were good reasons for making the > ACPI change, so is this a ACPI problem or should the code around the > tools, such as top, change? This is a 9.1 "regression" as the problem > is not there in FreeBSD 9.0. > > Here's some more info on the bug and possible workarounds: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=173541&cat= > > and > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-April/067382.html > > Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > Johan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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