How to debug high system load?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 07:00:23PM -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the nice explanation. But sadly this doesn't help either.
> > Earlier the load average on login would be ~ 1-1.5. With these changes,
> > it starts at ~ 2 and after about 5 minutes settles to ~ 1-1.2. For
> > example now my laptop has been running for 50 minutes and load is
> > hovering over 1. :(
> 
> A co-worker has a similar problem with a new Lenovo ThinkPad -- it
> turns out something about the audio chip was taking a lot more cpu
> cycles than it should be -- I'll try to dig out some more details from
> him.
> 

Thanks a lot Jared. :)

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Suvayu

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