Re: load avg += 1

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:11:07 -0400

Koblinger Egmont wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> After about 45 days of running my 2.2.12 kernel, reporting the load
> average went crazy, it always shows the value increased by 1. Though my
> CPU is idle at 90--100%, the load is always around 1.00 -- 1.10 and
> doesn't drop below 1. (PII, single processor, 233MHz).

I see this on 2.3.20 as well, on my AMD K6-II w/ a minimal .config.

Jeff

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