Fedora 14 under constant load

[John Poelstra]

Jesse Keating said the following on 10/14/2010 04:58 PM Pacific Time:
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> On 10/14/2010 04:49 PM, John Poelstra wrote:
>> That's what's so mysterious, very little CPU time or activity.
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> I saw this at one point, and the kernel folks found it to be a load
> balancing thing gone awry in the kernel.
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> 2.6.35.6-33.rc1 seems to include a patch:
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> - - Add sched-35-increment-cache_nice_tries-only-on-periodic-lb.patch,
> another fix for excessive scheduler load balancing.
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> That should be in kernel-2.6.35.6-39.fc14, which is in dist-f14.  My
> load went down and the laptop (also an M1330) has cooled down a bit, but
> it is still above one usually.
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I'm seeing it on another box too.

I'm running 2.6.35.6-43.fc14.x86_64

John