My Pi Channels DVR shows Load Average 0.00 when idle, while my Intel NAS shows Load Average 1.00 when idle -- why the difference?
I've never seen load average at 0.00. If this is the case, it is not working.
Actually, I suppose it is possible if you are running the stripped-down Channels Pi image and the CPU is literally doing absolutely nothing.
Your intel NAS probably has a fancy operating system with various packages installed. It probably does logging, runs scheduled tasks, and runs various background processes.
Mine always says 0.00 (Windows 10 laptop). I've never known what it meant and didn't think anything about it until now.
It happens every now and then
Mine used to show load averages but quit about 4 months ago. I kind of miss it, but not enough to have ever reported it. It doesn't change anything for me too much, but would be nice to see again.
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I thought OP was just talking about the 1 min avg being 0.00... which even that should be pretty rare. But if all 3 are 0.00 then it probably isn't reporting correctly.
Comskip running (using two cores) while downloading guide data.
Guide download complete, just comskip running.
It's very rare when I can catch that. I have to keep refreshing the browser when things are quiet.
Normally when Channels is idle I'll see something like this load averages: 0.05 0.07 0.25
its not the load average for just Channels. It is using the linux load average, same as you would get as if you typed "uptime" from the shell. It includes all processes running in the linux kernel.
I know. If I log into the Synology web UI the load goes up just servicing that portal.
If I bring up its resource monitor the load goes up again.
My other (older) Synology runs Channels DVR-TVE and a Channels m3u docker - I never see 0's on it.
$ uptime
19:49:48 up 59 days, 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
