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Model Specific Forums => Gemini PDA => Gemini PDA - Linux => Topic started by: geophile on July 12, 2018, 11:47:19 pm

Title: System load
Post by: geophile on July 12, 2018, 11:47:19 pm

I have just installed Debian Linux on my Gemini.

I have a QTerminal running, and I'm running top in it. I did not start any other processes.

top Shows a load average between 9 and 10. The top consumer of CPU is Xorg, using 5-7%.

Why is the load average so high? Is this typical?

Title: System load
Post by: tuk0z on July 13, 2018, 03:53:34 am

Same here, load goes as "low" as 9 both on Debian and Android.

Title: System load
Post by: Kiriririn on July 13, 2018, 05:54:13 am

Kernel sees whatever the mediatek driver does to turn off cores as them being under full load, so subtract roughly 10 to get the true value

Title: System load
Post by: Kero on July 31, 2018, 07:06:45 am

Top is updating your screen. top, term and X are all consuming CPU cycles -- with unfinished graphical drivers.

When you reduce the top update frequency (type 's', then a number larger than 3 and ENTER), you can see the percentage go down.

Then there is hps_main kernel thread, which I assume to be busy for real (maybe due to logging? I guess this one is generating all those log entries, keeping several more processes busy at that).