OT: what could cause a system to have a load of 1 when idle?
I have one (unimportant) Linux system that idles with a load of exactly 1. The issue persists through reboots. It is a KVM virtual machine and qemu confirms nothing is going on in the background.
I have the same problem on my laptop after loading the nvidia kernel module -- so something in the kernel is always uninterruptible, but it's not a process that I can see in userspace.
$ uptime; ps -L aux | awk '{ print $10 }' | sort -u
15:57:37 up 21 days, 22:49, 16 users, load average: 2.23, 1.61, 1.61
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$ ps -L aux|awk '($10 ~ /^R/){ print }'
rkeene 1025 1025 0.0 1 0.0 17980 2344 pts/10 R+ 15:57 0:00 ps -L aux
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I am assuming the guest (and host) kernels are sufficiently recent? I remember older kernels having a bug with load calculation. Does disabling Virtio-rng help? D state processes will cause rise in load average depending on NRCPUs.
So many comments here and not a single mention of "Slashdot Beta". It was a huge disaster, every single article had complaints about it while it was in effect.
They changed owners shortly after and it's still a running joke years later.
Every brand that has a large enough following will run into pitchforks for large redesigns - a lot of people are fans for something.
If you want to do this successfully, take a slice from Facebooks playbook. Their site looks nothing like 10 years ago, yet they somehow did all those radical UI changes gradually over years, always one step at a time, (mostly) listening to their user base inbetween.
> Their site looks nothing like 10 years ago, yet they somehow did all those radical UI changes gradually over years, always one step at a time, (mostly) listening to their user base in between.
I remember being really annoyed at one of the changes in about 2008. Looking at the timeline of Facebook[0], it was probably the rearrangement of the site into tabs (and then into something like the current layout 2 years later). I think that it's telling that I remember being annoyed at the time (and a bunch of other times, after other changes) than I remember what those changes were. Sometimes it's hard to remember exactly what it was like in the early days. So, I went looking and also found a Cnet slideshow illustrating the different looks of the site over the years [1]
>Every brand that has a large enough following will run into pitchforks for large redesigns - a lot of people are fans for something.
That is false, "running into a pitchfork" is the better, and least likely outcome.
Very often things develop like this: user logs in, can't find the usual button, and abandons the website - a la Mozilla forefox redesign fiasco that halved their userbase in a single month.
Another famous case is Akamai - at around 2013 they had a relatively insignifican't redesign, yet a single button was moved. They did not realize that they quietly bled users for over a year until they got serious and researched the matter. They failed to understand that a double digit portion of their users were non-tech staff like marketing boys who were taught to work in a manner like "move mouse over red rectangle, and push the button"
Humans are so cute. The reason you haven't met us yet is simply that you're not ready. How do you expect.to love your galactic neighbour if you can't even love YOUR OWN PLANET.
Please stop killing each other and make Earth great again (sorry). We can help you build the next one.
I have always disliked the assumption that aliens are somehow supposed to be highly more intelligent and peaceful beings. They could be cannibal sloths for all we know.
Why would an alien race, who sees our very corrosive atmosphere as poisonous, care if we do things to it that make it less habitable for our particular species? Small thinking imo.
Thanks for the answer. Is the removal of the context of the changes generally considered acceptable? We have a Red Hat license, but frankly, I am more a BSD person and our use of Red Hat is a requirement for specific programs.
Yes, it is well-understood to be acceptable. In the past, most commercial Linux distributions were developed behind closed doors in private revision control and pushed out as "complete" source packages. We had these conversations back then (~20 years ago), and the community and the companies involved came to mostly agree about what is and isn't OK. That's opened up a lot in recent years, such that these days "open source" usually means, "we have a public git repository", but it does not have to.
The GPL provides you some basic rights: you can request the source in a usable form, you can change it, you can redistribute it under the same terms.
It does not require access to the process that produced the software.
These days, Red Hat develops almost everything way out in the open. Contrary to all of the talk in this thread where folks (mostly just one guy, actually) keeps implying RH are violating the license or making it hard to get and distribute source, you can see discussions and the actual code being worked on months in advance of what will be in RHEL by following Fedora development. Fedora is developed entirely in public repositories and mailing lists, and it is where much of RHEL development takes place (RHEL trails Fedora by about 12 to 18 months, in terms of versions, and things that will be in RHEL next year are in Fedora today). Red Hat is an excellent OSS company who do damned near everything right, IMHO. Any complaints I might have about some of their practices (like I said elsewhere, I liked having a kernel SRPM that was the mainline kernel plus listed patches, and I miss it being that way) pale in comparison to the good they do for the OSS community.
Just because they make a lot of money doesn't mean they're cheating the community out of anything.
I've started to dislike /usr/bin/env too. At least use -i. Otherwise you're one PATH manipulation away from executing a malicious program as your intended shell.
While I think you are missing the point, I'm baited by the proposition that devops requires paying constant attention to smartphones.
I use "Tasker" on Android to check for my name in the on-call calendar and change notification settings accordingly. Otherwise it's dead silent when at work and very low volume when connected to a wifi.
Yes, definitely Bukowski the dissident. Although I would highly recommend both And the Wind Returns... and Factotum.
There is this very telling scene in And the Wind Returns... where people peruse Lenin's works on the toilet (to then use as toilet paper because there was a shortage of course) and afterwards discuss what they read. It leads to never-ending arguments because the collected Lenin's writings were so contradictory, everyone found something different.
I have one (unimportant) Linux system that idles with a load of exactly 1. The issue persists through reboots. It is a KVM virtual machine and qemu confirms nothing is going on in the background.
Any ideas how to find out what's causing it?