Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:13:32 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Complete I/O starvation with 3ware raid on 2.6 |
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Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:10:52AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>A few things to run are `top', `ps' and `vmstat 1'. >> > >The first two do not show any information out of the ordinary other >than the fact that the load average is 11 while only two rsync >processes are using any CPU at all. >
But the load average will be 11 because there are processes stuck in the kernel somewhere in D state. Have a look for them. They might be things like pdflush, kswapd, scsi_*, etc. Try getting an Alt+SysRq+T dump of them as well.
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