Neo - high load average after 1 -2 days on?

Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 20:57:34 CEST 2008


Hello,
I'm using the 2004-04-24 snapshot image with my Neo.
It seems that if the Neo is left on for more than one day, it will get
a high load average.
Like this:

root at om-gta01:~# uptime
 00:27:25 up 9 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.49, 1.52, 1.01
root at om-gta01:~# uptime
 07:36:58 up 1 day,  7:19,  1 user,  load average: 1.02, 1.10, 1.14
root at om-gta01:~# uptime
 18:04:25 up 1 day, 17:46,  1 user,  load average: 10.78, 8.97, 7.51

As you can see, the two firs ones are in the same range. But the third
one is unusual high, at least I have no other machines with this high
load average. :-)
The gui on the phone (touchscreen) isn't responsive at all, the
buttons gives a very delayed response.
Responses to ping are good, but as you can imagine, trying to use the
ssh shell (via usb) requires large amounts of patience.
I'm currently trying to use psax to find out what processes are running.
some time later:
root at om-gta01:~# ps ax
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        Ss     5:44 init [5]
    2 ?        S<     0:00 [kthreadd]
    3 ?        S<     0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 ?        S<     0:00 [watchdog/0]
    5 ?        S<     0:00 [events/0]
    6 ?        S<     0:00 [khelper]
   57 ?        S<     0:00 [kblockd/0]
   63 ?        S<     0:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
   69 ?        S<     0:00 [khubd]
   72 ?        S<     0:00 [kseriod]
   78 ?        S<     0:00 [kmmcd]
  107 ?        D      0:07 [pdflush]
  108 ?        S      0:08 [pdflush]
  109 ?        D<     3:38 [kswapd0]
  110 ?        S<     0:00 [aio/0]
  129 ?        S<     0:00 [kapmd]
  157 ?        S<     0:00 [mtdblockd]
  178 ?        S<     0:00 [spi_s3c24xx_gpi]
  220 ?        D<     0:00 [SDIO Helper]
  227 ?        S<     0:00 [rpciod/0]
  233 ?        S<     0:08 [mmcqd]
  315 ?        S<s    0:01 udevd --daemon
  834 ?        S<     0:00 [kjournald]
  853 ?        SN     0:14 [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
  888 ?        S<     0:00 [krfcommd]
 1027 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/portmap
 1065 ?        Ss     0:42 /usr/sbin/dropbear -r
/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key -p 22
 1075 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -P /etc/apm/apmd_proxy
--proxy-timeout 30
 1088 ?        Ss     2:44 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
 1094 ?        Rs    33:38 /usr/sbin/hald
 1095 ?        S      0:00 hald-runner
 1102 ?        S      0:09 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0
 1103 ?        S      0:10 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0
 1104 ?        S      0:08 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event2
 1107 ?        S      0:01 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1
 1114 ?        Ss     3:23 /sbin/syslogd -n -C64 -m 20
 1116 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/klogd -n
 1125 ?        Ss     0:00 avahi-daemon: running [om-gta01.local]
 1142 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/hcid -s -f /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
 1145 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd-service-input
 1168 ?        S<s   35:28 gpsd -n /tmp/nmeaNP
 1201 ?        R     96:22 lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path
/home/root/gllin/lib:/home/root/glli
 1202 ?        Ss     5:21 /usr/sbin/gsmd gsmd -p /dev/ttySAC0 -s
115200 -F -d -l syslog
 1203 ?        S<sl  61:15 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --no-cpu-limit
--resample-method=trivial -D -nF /
 1218 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
 1223 ?        S      0:00 xinit /etc/X11/Xsession -- /usr/bin/Xfbdev
:0 -pn -dpi 285 -screen 48
 1228 ?        S<    50:04 /usr/bin/Xfbdev :0 -pn -dpi 285 -screen
480x640 -hide-cursor -root-pp
 1235 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession
 1240 ?        Ss     0:02 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4
--print-address 6 --session
 1244 ?        S      0:00 run-parts /etc/X11/Xsession.d
 1248 ?        S      0:20 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2
 1252 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/settings-daemon
 1254 ?        S      0:01 multitap-pad -d
 1256 ?        Rl     2:56 neod
 1257 ?        Z     38:43 [openmoko-today] <defunct>
 1258 ?        Sl    23:02 phone-kit
 1259 ?        S     21:00 matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar yes
-use_desktop_mode decorated
 1260 ?        D     46:01 matchbox-panel-2 --start-applets
systray,startup --end-applets openmo
 1263 ?        S      0:03 /usr/libexec/e-calendar-factory
 1268 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/e-addressbook-factory
 1275 ?        Ss     3:00 /usr/sbin/dropbear -r
/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key -p 22
 1276 pts/0    Ss     0:29 -sh
 1292 ?        S      0:02 /usr/libexec/notification-daemon
 1321 ?        R     81:09 tangogps
 1327 pts/0    R+     1:23 ps ax

And now the load average is down too:
root at om-gta01:~# uptime
 20:05:09 up 1 day, 19:47,  1 user,  load average: 1.22, 1.10, 1.20


Any clues as to what is causing this?
--
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen



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