Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:39:24 -0400 | From | "Timothy Normand Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Problem: Load average of 6, no I/O, 25% idle time. Why? |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Timothy Normand Miller <theosib@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a four processor box, running three compute loads. The kernel > I'm running is 2.6.25-gentoo-r5. > > One process has four threads, and it's niced to 19. > Another process has one thread and is niced to -10 > The last process has one thread and is niced to 0 > > One processor is always idle. > > If I change either the 0 to a -10 or the -10 to a zero, then all four > cores are properly utilized. > > Does this make sense to anyone? Besides messing with the nice levels, > is there another way to fix this?
I updated to kernel 2.6.26-gentoo, and I no longer see any of the problems I observed. No idle time under any circumstances where the system has plenty of work to do and no I/O waiting.
Thanks, everyone!
-- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project
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