Netgear r6700v2 here on snapshot, generally running the default settings (but it is custom compiled) with 5.15.
Ever since I got the router for the past month or two, my load average has always seem high. 6.41, 6.46, 6.60. With other features enabled SQM fq_codel on 300/300 fiber, adblock with 300k domains, DAWN, and routing for maybe 20-30 devices (not always on at the same time, but a household), I have seen it go up to the 7s and 8s.
btop shows the cpu at 41C (its about 65F) with utilization about 1-3% - this is with SQM/adblock/DAWN all disabled from the startup menu.
My second r6700v2 which acts as a WDS-client has load of 2.6, 2.35, 2.42 with DAWN off, but goes into the 3s/4s.
I wonder about the load because my archer c7v2 was always much less than 1, like maybe 0.5 range.
Is this normal for the MT7621 chip/processor? I think it has 2 cores with 2 threads each. Did I set up something incorrectly?
Same here on a Netgear R6900v2; I've observed >3 load averages since 21.03 (before it was officially supported). Just updated to 23.05.00-rc2 and no change. Set up as an AP, IPv6 disabled, sharing a USB drive w/ ksmbd; but the load averages were the same before ksmbd was set up on it.
root@R6900v2:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.15.118 (builder@buildhost) (mipsel-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc (OpenWrt GCC 12.3.0 r23228-cd17d8df2a) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.40.0) #0 SMP Mon Jun 26 11:20:39 2023
Here is from SSH, Luci values are naturally higher (3.6-4.0):
