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Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-07 12:40:00)
by James Pearson Guest
I've booted a 64 bit 2.6.32 kernel on dual processor, quad core Xeon E5440 machine. The load average when the machine is idle varies between 2 and 3. When using a 2.6.31 kernel on the same machine, the load average when idle is nearly 0 The kernel doesn't use modules - all that is needed is compiled in. The machine uses NFS-root Strangely, when I run 'iftop' (from http...