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From: Maxim V FIlimonov <che@bein.link>
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Subject: Re: Cubieboard: load average above 2
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:08:22 +0400
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On Friday 05 September 2014 23:55:55 Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 01:41:40AM +0400, Maxim V FIlimonov wrote:
> > Recently, I installed FreeBSD-current to my Cubieboard2:
> > root@cubie:~ # uname -a
> > FreeBSD cubie 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271182M: Sat Sep  6
> > 01:17:28 MSK 2014     root@quad:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/home/che/freebsd-
> > src/head/sys/CUBIEBOARD2  arm
> > 
> > And the system's load average keeps being above 2:
> > root@cubie:~ # uptime
> > 
> >  8:31PM  up 19 mins, 1 user, load averages: 2.36, 1.89, 1.32
> > 
> > Everything is not really slow, but sometimes takes time.
> > What could be the problem here? What can I do with that?
> 
> top -SH is the first thing I do to find what's consuming CPU.
> Note that an idle thread consuming CPU means it's really idling.

I took away I2C support from the kernel config, and now LA is about 1.3 which 
is also a bit too much, but not that big, AFAIK. Could i2c be the problem 
here?
-- 
wbr, Maxim Filimonov
che@bein.link