linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

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Message-ID: <20071002161943.15411245@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:19:43 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Anders Bostr?m <anders@...trom.dyndns.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: high load average when idle

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:32:53 -0700 (PDT)

> And I wonder if the same kind thing is effectively happening here:
> the code is written so that it *tries* to sleep, but the rounding of
> the clock basically means that it's trying to sleep using a different
> clock than the one we're using to wake things up with, so some
> percentage of the time it doesn't sleep at all!

we're talking about a timer that (normally) is 5 seconds.

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