[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#639539: load average reported incorrectly low

[Bart Bobrowski]

Subject: base: load average reported incorrectly low
Package: base
Severity: important

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EVER SINCE UPGRADING TO SQUEEZE, LOAD AVERAGE IN TOP IS INCORRECTLY
REPORTED AS TOO LOW THAN IT REALLY IS. THIS PROBLEM IS PRESENT IN THE
DEFAULT SQUEEZE KERNEL, AS WELL AS UPGRADED 6.38 KERNEL. THIS PROBLEM
DOES NOT EXIST IN 2.6.26-2-amd64 LENNY. THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN
REPLICATED ON MORE THAN 1 SERVER. DOWNGRADING TO LENNY KERNEL FIXES
THE PROBLEM. EXAMPLE: SERVER ON LENNY RUNNING 0.80 0.70 0.60 LOAD
AVERAGE LATER REGISTERS 0.00 0.02 0.05 AFTER UPGRADE DURING THE SAME
SERVER LOAD THROUGHOUT THE DAY. SERVER IS RUNNING MYSQL, PROBLEM ALSO
EXISTS RUNNING PHP WEB SERVER. PROBLEM HOWEVER DOES NOT SEEM PRESENT
DOING OTHER TASKS, SUCH AS COMPILING OR GZIPPING.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash