Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:31:41 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Disk-I/O and % system (2.4.18-pre9) |
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Florian Hars wrote: > > I have an ext[23] filesystem (doesn't matter which), on an LVM Volume. > Whenever I do some heavy disk-I/O (like untaring an archive with 13000 > files that amount to 5GB), the CPU-state repeatedly goes to 99.9% > system and stays there for a noticeable amount of time (1-2 seconds), > during which the system doesn't respond very well to user action, to put > it mildly.
A kernel profile will presumably point us at the problem.
It's pretty simple. See http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.3/0773.html
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