Fedora 14 under constant load

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/15/2010 11:28 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:18:37PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Now I actually look at the load stats, I do seem to have something like
>>> this problem, I just never noticed (I thought Poelcat was talking about
>>> CPU load % at first):
>
> Although not in Adam's case, as he doesn't mention thunderbird, is there
> any chance for any of you others that this article is relevant?
>
> http://perfprotector.blogspot.com/2010/08/thunderbird-3-is-it-really-all-yours.html
>
>
> I'm not having the problem, but generally, I run mutt and opera with
> openbox.
>
> Right now, with at least 8 rxvt-unicode terminals open, the load is
> something like 0.45 as average.
>
>

Yeah, I can get to that without tb or firefox, but that is still really high 
load.  On earlier machines I can get to very load loads (< 0.1) with just 
terminals.

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