From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 5 20:49:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA1665B; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:49:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (mail-wg0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8861724F; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id e12so8627161wge.22 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:49:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZmuBT1VTS4DbMXbAVkQgTDAAulz0amCtbPkeEbpM3Gw=; b=L6yPsNkWLIjPTGzdDYvhvHJfDpIVM0yluPIbj+A+OscTvPc2g2pSZAEnMFCUxUmgYR 9Urinzcd5ufZ4/sPW8iqGf8am+oX7noBu1x3/twmUEGB/++0gEf1OdIBshC19+avNzUC gBysCiLYaUEF6Obi8x2MYZyupk8Es1jtitghXo1PkCXqdJ/nd+FCBG7nU1iAzhvAIlCH SNHHusFkkY9FrsbIIPkNHYdHp4d4TUQYNmnfG7RxcVbamI+rh9kiuYuQI0INw4k+DfRA 8ehXb+x0epaVsOlYNzGwJwOTumSkdcKFNT4luqCk/xf02+1Ku44E2GMECz5amoZD29qK bPLg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.195.13.67 with SMTP id ew3mr1966989wjd.59.1357418986272; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:49:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.217.57.9 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:49:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 12:49:46 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: kMMR-U3bVDFkwTf3mfuDYsbiNHU Message-ID: Subject: Re: load average 0.60 at 100% idle From: Adrian Chadd To: Johan Broman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:49:48 -0000 Cc'ing the committer / ACPI owner! jkim - any comments? Adrian On 5 January 2013 12:38, Johan Broman 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"