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ktkhuong

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From: Houston, TX

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] High load average in X at idle

Hello Archers,

Recently my laptop has been showing abnormally high 1-minute load averages (~0.20-0.80 on a dual-core machine) at idle whenever I have X running. This figure has always settled down to 0.00 after a while, and indeed it does when I exit to the console. What's puzzling is that top reports a less-extreme 2-3% CPU usage number, with X taking 1% at most (still high, though, considering I'm running a very lightweight DWM setup). To be sure, this does heat up the CPU noticeably. I don't think I've changed anything on my system except for routine updating, and I've made sure my .xinitrc script isn't the culprit.

Any ideas on why this is?

EDIT: Marked as [SOLVED].

Last edited by ktkhuong (2010-08-27 00:28:45)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] High load average in X at idle

Kernel .35.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103346

Last edited by karol (2010-08-26 10:33:35)

ktkhuong

Member

From: Houston, TX

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] High load average in X at idle

Thanks for the link, karol. I used the wrong search terms, apparently, because this is a kernel issue and not an X issue. Of note is that the load average for a system depends not only on the CPU but also on I/O traffic.

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Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED] High load average in X at idle

Follow discussion in the linked thread.

Closing....

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