Cubieboard: load average above 2

Maxim V FIlimonov che at bein.link
Fri Sep 5 22:02:33 UTC 2014


On Friday 05 September 2014 23:55:55 you wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 01:41:40AM +0400, Maxim V FIlimonov wrote:
> > Recently, I installed FreeBSD-current to my Cubieboard2:
> > root at cubie:~ # uname -a
> > FreeBSD cubie 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271182M: Sat Sep  6
> > 01:17:28 MSK 2014     root at quad:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/home/che/freebsd-
> > src/head/sys/CUBIEBOARD2  arm
> > 
> > And the system's load average keeps being above 2:
> > root at cubie:~ # uptime
> > 
> >  8:31PM  up 19 mins, 1 user, load averages: 2.36, 1.89, 1.32
> > 
> > Everything is not really slow, but sometimes takes time.
> > What could be the problem here? What can I do with that?
> 
> top -SH is the first thing I do to find what's consuming CPU.
> Note that an idle thread consuming CPU means it's really idling.

It shows about 200% idle and about 0.5% per task for other tasks. That's 
weird.

-- 
wbr, Maxim Filimonov
che at bein.link


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