Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 May 2002 15:26:51 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Very High Load on Disk Activity in 2.4.18 (and 2.4.18-pre8) |
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:19:21AM +0200, Jan Schreiber wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'm experiencing a strange effect. As soons as there is some higher disk > > > activity (untarring the linux kernel is enough, which really should be no > > > problem) the system load gets really high (some times over 10) but the > > CPU > > > is 100% idle (reported by top). > > > > Which processes aren't sleeping? Look for STAT values other than 'S' > > and/or type 'i' to switch top into no-idle mode. > > First i would like to thank you for your answer > > When i do a simple "find / * | grep bla bla" the Load is over 3 after > 10 seconds and about 10 after a minute. > > I did a "top" and switched to non-idle mode. The only processes that appear > constantly when the load is such high are "kupdated" and "kreiserfsd". Any > ideas? >
run:
ps ax|grep " D"
And list the output here. Also, is anything else running at the time? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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