zrpi
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High load average

Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:35 am

Hi.

I am getting unusually high load averages since switching from squeeze(the first official RPI package) to raspbian(wheezy).
My PI has no significant work to do, a few processes running idle, and a few web pages open...
This is what I get:
load average: 1,73, 1,68, 1,93

When I kill al the processes I consider is safe killing the averages go down to about 0.5

I have no processes in D state.

My uname -a
Linux wizi 3.2.27+ #160 PREEMPT Mon Sep 17 23:18:42 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux

Thanks for any ideas....

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Re: High load average

Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:02 am

My wheezy preempt is at 247 so you might want to try again I usually update then upgrade then rpi update.

Big difference between 160 and 247 not sure why it left you that far behind.
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Re: High load average

Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:13 pm

My preempt is 160 too, what's the current latest stable version?

zrpi
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Re: High load average

Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:35 pm

nicknml wrote:My preempt is 160 too, what's the current latest stable version?
And how to install it?

I did the apt update and upgrade, but nothing changed... the load during the upgrade was over 8 :lol: , and it remains arround 1 in idle state.
BTW, I have the v2 rpi.

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Re: High load average

Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:46 pm

zrpi wrote:I did the apt update and upgrade, but nothing changed... the load during the upgrade was over 8 :lol: , and it remains arround 1 in idle state.
BTW, I have the v2 rpi.
Does it change after doing a:
vcgencmd version

zrpi
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Re: High load average

Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:58 pm

No, nothing changes...
I get:
Sep 18 2012 01:44:00
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 337601 (release)

and the load stays high.

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