Re: therm_adt746x and load average

[Cedric Pradalier <cedric.pradalier@inrialpes.fr>]

According to Oriol Pellicer i Sabrià, on Fri, 21 May 2004 11:39:18
+0200, 
>Hello,
>
>I'm using an Ibook G4 14" and I've seen that when I charge the
>therm_adt746x module the load average grows-up linearly until something
>like this in a few minutes:
>
>iboox:~# uptime
> 11:27:37 up 32 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.96, 1.23, 0.77
>
>If I discharge this module, 
>
>iboox:~# rmmod therm_adt746x
>iboox:~# uptime
> 11:37:15 up 42 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.11, 0.56, 0.65
>
>somebody knows what happens?
>
>I'm using Debian Sid with a vanilla kernel 2.6.6 with the pmdisk patch.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>

Hi,

	This is just an artefact due to the way kernel counts daemonized
module cpu usage in the load average. Actually your cpu is not working
that much. 

Can you confirm Colin ?

-- 
Cedric

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