Re: Fan control on ibook2
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 00:04, Colin Leroy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >First it sets a very high load on the CPU. I wonder if the task is
> >correctly scheduled. I'll have a look at that. It's as if the task
> >monitoring task was running without yielding the processor...
>
> No, it just seems to :) You have a 1.0 load average, that's it ? this is
> due to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is needed according to Benjamin;
> however this doesn't eat the cpu power :)
Yes, it's a dodgy heuristic in the load average calculation. You can
actually use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE provided you correctly block signals
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