[gentoo-user] Re: Idle Process Scheduling

2009-06-13 Thread Jason Lynch
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:39:52 +0200, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > How do you know how many processes are running? What does 'top' say > about CPU usage and load? Maybe dnetc has two threads, which can each > occupy a core, so you have still 4 threads that are running, in 3 > processes. You still should g

[gentoo-user] Idle Process Scheduling

2009-06-12 Thread Jason Lynch
I'm having a strange problem on my Q6600 that cropped up starting with the 2.6.29 series of the kernel, and is still present in 2.6.30. Essentially, at all times, I have four nice 19 processes running, which for the sake of this post, we'll call "dnetc". All four cores are utilized. At this poi