2.6.21.1-linode32

This kernel fixes the high load averages on idle systems (as reported here), adds DM_MIRROR support, and also contains the openafs driver, with build instructions (and some hackery) provided by Linode.com community member Kevin Cody.

Can I get a witness? (...before making Latest 2.6 point to it)

-Chris

CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
CONFIG_UML=y
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_NO_IOMEM=y
CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y
CONFIG_IRQ_RELEASE_METHOD=y
CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y
CONFIG_MODE_SKAS=y
CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_UML_X86=y
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
CONFIG_HOST_VMSPLIT_3G=y
CONFIG_TOP_ADDR=0xC0000000
CONFIG_STUB_CODE=0xbfffe000
CONFIG_STUB_DATA=0xbffff000
CONFIG_STUB_START=0xbfffe000
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SC_SIGNALS=y
CONFIG_ARCH_REUSE_HOST_VSYSCALL_AREA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=0
CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_STATIC=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_MCONSOLE=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_NEST_LEVEL=0
CONFIG_KERNEL_STACK_ORDER=2
CONFIG_UML_REAL_TIME_CLOCK=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=128
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
CONFIG_SWAP=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
CONFIG_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq"
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024
CONFIG_STDERR_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_STDIO_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SSL=y
CONFIG_NULL_CHAN=y
CONFIG_PORT_CHAN=y
CONFIG_PTY_CHAN=y
CONFIG_TTY_CHAN=y
CONFIG_XTERM_CHAN=y
CONFIG_CON_ZERO_CHAN="fd:0,fd:1"
CONFIG_CON_CHAN="null"
CONFIG_SSL_CHAN="pty"
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_UML_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_XFRM=y
CONFIG_XFRM_USER=y
CONFIG_NET_KEY=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_ASK_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_INET_AH=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET=y
CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_TCP_CONG="cubic"
CONFIG_IPV6=y
CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY=y
CONFIG_INET6_AH=y
CONFIG_INET6_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET6_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET6_XFRM_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET6_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET6_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT=y
CONFIG_INET6_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET6_XFRM_MODE_BEET=y
CONFIG_IPV6_SIT=y
CONFIG_IPV6_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_NETWORK_SECMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK=y
CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_GRE=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_FTP=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IRC=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PPTP=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SIP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CLASSIFY=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_MARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NFQUEUE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NFLOG=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NOTRACK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_SECMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CONNSECMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_COMMENT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNBYTES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNMARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ESP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HELPER=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LENGTH=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MAC=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MARK=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_POLICY=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_PHYSDEV=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_REALM=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_SCTP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATISTIC=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STRING=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HASHLIMIT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_IPRANGE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_AH=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TTL=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ADDRTYPE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_SAME=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_PROTO_GRE=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_FTP=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_IRC=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_PPTP=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_SIP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TTL=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_RAW=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_RT=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_OPTS=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_FRAG=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_HL=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_IPV6HEADER=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_AH=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MATCH_EUI64=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_HL=y
CONFIG_IP6_NF_RAW=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_BROUTE=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_T_FILTER=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_T_NAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_802_3=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_AMONG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ARP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_IP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_MARK=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_STP=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_VLAN=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ARPREPLY=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_DNAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_MARK_T=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_SNAT=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_LOG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE_EBT_ULOG=y
CONFIG_BRIDGE=y
CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y
CONFIG_LLC=y
CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_FIFO=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CLK_JIFFIES=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HTB=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HFSC=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_RED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_SFQ=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TEQL=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TBF=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_GRED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_DSMARK=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_INGRESS=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_BASIC=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_TCINDEX=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE4=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_FW=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_U32=y
CONFIG_CLS_U32_PERF=y
CONFIG_CLS_U32_MARK=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_RSVP6=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_STACK=32
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_CMP=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_NBYTE=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_U32=y
CONFIG_NET_EMATCH_META=y
CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE=y
CONFIG_NET_ESTIMATOR=y
CONFIG_FIB_RULES=y
CONFIG_UML_NET=y
CONFIG_UML_NET_TUNTAP=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_TUN=y
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
CONFIG_PPP_MPPE=y
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLHC=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_FS_MBCACHE=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JFS_FS=y
CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS=y
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_XFS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
CONFIG_QFMT_V1=y
CONFIG_QFMT_V2=y
CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ECRYPT_FS=y
CONFIG_CRAMFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V2_ACL=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y
CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="cp437"
CONFIG_OPENAFS_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y
CONFIG_NLS_ASCII=y
CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=y
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
CONFIG_DLM=y
CONFIG_DLM_TCP=y
CONFIG_KEYS=y
CONFIG_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HASH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HMAC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_XCBC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_NULL=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD4=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_WP512=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TGR192=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_GF128MUL=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECB=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCBC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_LRW=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_FCRYPT=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLOWFISH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_COMMON=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TWOFISH_586=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_SERPENT=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST5=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAST6=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEA=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_KHAZAD=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANUBIS=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32C=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CAMELLIA=y
CONFIG_BITREVERSE=y
CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=y
CONFIG_CRC16=y
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_KMP=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_BM=y
CONFIG_TEXTSEARCH_FSM=y
CONFIG_PLIST=y
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID456=y
CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=y
CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y
CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=y
CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y

My load average still seems high

11:15:00  up 6 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.79, 2.10, 0.97
208 processes: 204 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   3.0% user   0.0% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  96.9% idle
Mem:   509716k av,  304200k used,  205516k free,       0k shrd,   49956k buff
       166312k active,              90380k inactive
Swap:  205816k av,       0k used,  205816k free                  120608k cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
    1 root      15   0  1468  516   460 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 events/0
    4 root      20  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 khelper
    5 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kthread
   35 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kblockd/0
   47 root      24   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 pdflush
   48 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0 pdflush
   49 root      19  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kswapd0
   50 root      19  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 aio/0
   53 root      19  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 jfsIO
   54 root      19  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 jfsCommit
   55 root      19  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 jfsSync
   56 root      19  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 xfslogd/0
   57 root      19  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 xfsdatad/0
  602 root      11  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kcryptd/0
  603 root      11  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 ksnapd
  604 root      11  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kmirrord
  700 root      10  -5     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00   0 kjournald
 1502 root      18   0  2056  576   300 S     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 dhclient
 1552 root      16   0  1616  620   528 R     0.0  0.1   0:00   0 syslogd

Seems like an appropriate loadavg to me, with that many (running) processes. For the real test, you need an idle system. It may take a few minutes after booting for your loadavg to settle down.

-Chris

I'll be your witness for the load-issue.

No problems over the last 16 hours in terms of excessive load:

  0.6 ++--+----+---+----+---+---+----+---+---+----+---+----+---+---+----+--++
      +        +        +       +        + "load-20070507" using 1:2 ****** +
      |                                                                     |
  0.5 ++                                                                   ++
      |                                                                     |
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  0.4 ++                                                                   ++
      |                                                                     |
      |                                                                     |
  0.3 ++                                                                   ++
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      |                                                                     |
  0.2 ++                                                                   ++
      |                                                                     |
      |                                                                     |
      |                                                                     |
  0.1 ++                                                                   ++
      |                                          **                         |
      *        +        +       +        +      * +*       +       +        +
    0 +*****************************************--+-*********************--++
    00:00    02:00    04:00   06:00    08:00    10:00    12:00   14:00    16:00

Performance seems to be more or less the same:

OS                  : Linux 2.6.20-linode28
C compiler          : gcc version 3.3.4
libc                : ld-2.3.2.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 16.524
INTEGER INDEX       : 11.235
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 28.948

OS                  : Linux 2.6.21.1-linode32

C compiler          : gcc version 3.4.6
libc                : libc-2.3.6.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 17.317
INTEGER INDEX       : 12.584
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 27.415

--deckert

I rebooted my Linode (Debian Etch, previously running 2.6.20-linode28) with this new kernel yesterday. The load average fix is working, alright (see image below, the system is under more or less constant actual load, but you can clearly see where I upgraded the kernel).

I noted no problems with the new kernel, so far.

Works great for me.

James