load average 0.60 at 100% idle

[Adrian Chadd]

Cc'ing the committer / ACPI owner!

jkim - any comments?



Adrian

On 5 January 2013 12:38, Johan Broman <je.broman at gmail.com> 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
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