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DateFri, 05 May 2006 17:12:45 -0600
FromRobert Hancock <>
SubjectRe: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3
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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