Hello everyone, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:00:34PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi, > > I have a ThinkPad (Core i7, 2.67GHz) with F17 and I'm seeing high system > loads persistently. Right from boot up I see loads of 1, and often it > goes up to 2 or more. > > Things I have looked at: > 1. I'm using Xfce, so the desktop environment is also light. > 2. I looked at the output of `systemctl list-units' and don't see any > unnecessary services enabled. > 3. top only says currently Xorg is the most active process with 1% CPU > activity. From the activity summary of atop since boot, I see it's > Xorg with 3% CPU usage. And while idling all my 4 logical cores are > throttled down and are at about 1%. > > So my question is since CPU usage is already so low, what could be > driving up the system load? This is bugging me since I also see a > general sluggishness compared to a much faster system early this year. > To answer myself; after I upgraded to kernel 3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64 yesterday, I haven't seen any issues with load. My average load when browsing, reading email, or other regular desktop activities is ~ 0.22. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
