Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 7 May 2006 12:54:09 +0200 | | From | bert hubert <> | | Subject | Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 |
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On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:02:47PM -0700, Jason Schoonover wrote:
> The interesting thing was that after I did a Ctrl-C on the ncftpget, the id > column was still at 0, even though the ncftpget process was over. The id > column was at 0 and the 'wa' column was at 98, up until all of the pdflush > processes ended. > > Is that the expected behavior?
Yes - data is still being written out. 'wa' stands for waiting for io. As long as 'us' and 'sy' are not 100 (together), your system ('computing power') is not 'busy'.
The lines below are perfect: > 0 2 40 47816 7888 1920116 0 0 0 36264 1354 56 0 1 0 99 > 0 2 40 48312 7888 1920116 0 0 0 36248 1362 52 0 1 0 99
Wether you should have 5 pdflushes running is something I have no relevant experience about, but your system should function just fine during writeout.
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