On 14 December 2010 00:07, Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com wrote:
Hmm... mind you...... on my dual core 2.6GHz-ish machine, with buntu 10.04, the load average is: 0.57, 0.50, 0.59 for a pretty much idle machine except firefox having a few tabs open.
I remember a single-core machine with a slower clock, less ram etc, about 4 years ago having an idle load of about 0.05, 0.01, 0.01. I'm sure this isn't a very good or scientific comparison, but I sometimes wonder if there is a problem with Linux.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04, default kernel, default Gnome, on a single core machine (Pentium 4 3GHz), and almost all my load issues are caused by Firefox! I have one tab open to write this email and the load average is about 0.18. Meanwhile in top the other big CPU users over the past 6 days uptime are "beam.smp" (part of couch db, part of gwibber, which is pants because it breaks when I sleep or hibernate the computer) and Xorg.
Tim.