Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:07:20 +0200 | From | David Hajek <> | Subject | Re: high cpu load with sw raid1 |
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Sep 20, 2001 10:26 +0200, David Hajek wrote: > > I have linux box with 70GB SW Raid1. This box runs for half > > a year without problems but now I meet the high cpu load > > problems. I suspect that it can be caused by not enough > > free disk space on this md device. I see following: > > > > 1 GB free - load > 5 > > 5 GB free - load < 1 > > What filesystem are you using? If it is reiserfs, and you have < 10% > of the disk free, it is very unhappy. A patch to fix this is available. >
I'm using ext2. I suspect high ext2 fragmentation, because when there are 'only' 1GB free the disk is _really_ busy. I doubt that it takes lot of time to find free blocks.
-- David Hajek hajek@idoox.com GSM: +420 604 352968 - VMS is like a nightmare about RXS-11M.
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