From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: js@cionix.de
Cc: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Very High Load on Disk Activity in 2.4.18 (and 2.4.18-pre8)
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 15:26:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020531222651.GA874@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020525121737Z314546-22651+55555@vger.kernel.org> <1022329607.3cef83072437b@mail.cionix.de> <200205290719.g4T7JVY25856@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <1022750361.3cf5ee99434bf@mail.cionix.de>
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?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-31 22:27 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20020525121737Z314546-22651+55555@vger.kernel.org>
2002-05-25 12:26 ` Very High Load on Disk Activity in 2.4.18 (and 2.4.18-pre8) jan.lists
2002-05-29 12:21 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-30 9:19 ` Jan Schreiber
2002-05-31 22:26 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
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