Chris, Thanks for responding. My current kernel is 5.8.0-0.rc4.1.fc33.x86_64. the problem started several kernels ago though. Best regards, George... On Monday, July 13, 2020, 8:21:14 PM PDT, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:04 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:17 PM George R Goffe via test > <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running an uptodate Fedora Core 33 x86_64 system on a laptop. Processes are reporting HUGE numbers for load values. Top, htop, xosview and the new xosview programs are affected. the ps command seems to report correctly though. > > > > For example: Top reports: > > > > top - 19:15:21 up 10:40, 16 users, load average: 2127.09, 2120.61, 2105.07 > > Tasks: 249 total, 3 running, 246 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > > > Obviously the top line is incorrect. This is an 8 core, single processor laptop. If I tried to run that many processes the system would melt. :-) > > > > Has anyone else seen this. Can I get some hints/tips/suggestions please? > > Not as bad as yours, but this is on a system that's idle and is just > plain wrong too. > > top - 21:03:41 up 6:24, 1 user, load average: 1.66, 1.68, 1.64 > > What kernel? I'm on 5.8rc4. About to reboot to rc5 now. top - 21:19:51 up 14 min, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.25, 0.26 Same stuff running. *shrug* -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx