Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 05 May 2006 17:12:45 -0600 | | From | Robert Hancock <> | | Subject | Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 |
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Jason Schoonover wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if this is the right list to post to, so please direct me to the > appropriate list if this is the wrong one. > > I'm having some problems on the latest 2.6.17-rc3 kernel and SCSI disk I/O. > Whenever I copy any large file (over 500GB) the load average starts to slowly > rise and after about a minute it is up to 7.5 and keeps on rising (depending > on how long the file takes to copy). When I watch top, the processes at the > top of the list are cp, pdflush, kjournald and kswapd. >
Are there some processes stuck in D state? These will contribute to the load average even if they are not using CPU.
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