Re: How to debug high system load?

["Jared K. Smith" <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the nice explanation. But sadly this doesn't help either.
> Earlier the load average on login would be ~ 1-1.5. With these changes,
> it starts at ~ 2 and after about 5 minutes settles to ~ 1-1.2. For
> example now my laptop has been running for 50 minutes and load is
> hovering over 1. :(

A co-worker has a similar problem with a new Lenovo ThinkPad -- it
turns out something about the audio chip was taking a lot more cpu
cycles than it should be -- I'll try to dig out some more details from
him.

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Jared Smith
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