Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Date | Mon, 08 May 2006 13:22:36 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 13:13 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 09:50:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This is probably because the number of pdflush threads slowly grows to its > > maximum. This is bogus, and we seem to have broken it sometime in the past > > few releases. I need to find a few quality hours to get in there and fix > > it, but they're rare :( > > > > It's pretty harmless though. The "load average" thing just means that the > > extra pdflush threads are twiddling thumbs waiting on some disk I/O - > > they'll later exit and clean themselves up. They won't be consuming > > significant resources. > > Not completely harmless. Some daemons (sendmail, exim) use the load > average to decide if they will allow more work.
and those need to be fixed most likely ;)
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