linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.2.38

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Date:	Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:11:30 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	tmhikaru@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.2.38

On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 12:36 -0500, tmhikaru@...il.com wrote:
> 	Hmm. I'm not sure what's going on here but ever since I upgraded to
> this kernel my CPU use has always been at 100% - various apps (top, pidstat,
> conky) give different reasons for this, conky&pidstat claims things like
> X/the most active X application are cpu hogging, while top seems to think
> the majority of cpu use is being done by 'sys' - the interesting thing
> though is that my loadaverage is staying very close to zero.
> 
> 	I know that this is far from a useful bug report, but to be honest I
> don't even know where to begin checking, so I'll start a git bisect of
> 3.2.37 vs 3.2.38 tonight and see what happens.

There weren't any scheduler changes in 3.2.38 so I can't make any better
suggestion than to do that bisection.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

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