{
 "id": "luckfox-pico-zero-reports-load-average-10-00",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Luckfox Pico Zero reports load average 10.00 forever on an idle CPU - ten Rockchip media kernel threads parked in D state, not real load",
 "symptom": "top and /proc/loadavg show 10.00 10.03 10.00 (drifting to 10.2 briefly) while vmstat reports the CPU 96-99% idle and /proc/stat agrees. It never drops below 10 no matter how idle the board is.",
 "hw": [
  "luckfox-pico-zero",
  "rv1106g3",
  "rockchip",
  "aic8800dc"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "buildroot@2023.02.6",
  "linux-kernel@5.10.160"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "x86_64",
  "ubuntu-25"
 ],
 "intent": "judge whether a Luckfox Pico Zero is overloaded",
 "date": "2026-08-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench2",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench2",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}