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From: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
To: Jason Schoonover <jasons@pioneer-pra.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 12:54:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060507105409.GA3835@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605061802.47261.jasons@pioneer-pra.com>

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:02:47PM -0700, Jason Schoonover wrote:

> The interesting thing was that after I did a Ctrl-C on the ncftpget, the id 
> column was still at 0, even though the ncftpget process was over.  The id 
> column was at 0 and the 'wa' column was at 98, up until all of the pdflush 
> processes ended.
> 
> Is that the expected behavior?

Yes - data is still being written out. 'wa' stands for waiting for io. As
long as 'us' and 'sy' are not 100 (together), your system ('computing
power') is not 'busy'.

The lines below are perfect:
>  0  2     40  47816   7888 1920116    0    0     0 36264 1354    56  0  1  0 99
>  0  2     40  48312   7888 1920116    0    0     0 36248 1362    52  0  1  0 99

Wether you should have 5 pdflushes running is something I have no relevant
experience about, but your system should function just fine during writeout.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-07 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-05 17:10 High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 Jason Schoonover
2006-05-06 23:03 ` bert hubert
2006-05-07  1:02   ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-07 10:54     ` bert hubert [this message]
2006-05-07 16:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-07 17:24   ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-08 11:13   ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-08 11:22     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 11:28       ` Russell King
2006-05-08 11:38         ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-08 12:37         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-09 14:37         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-08 14:24   ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-08 14:55     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 15:22       ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-08 15:25         ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-08 15:31         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 15:42           ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-08 16:02             ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-08 16:02             ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2006-05-08 16:47             ` Russell King
2006-05-08 17:04               ` Gabor Gombas
2006-05-08 17:18             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-09  1:57           ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09  2:02             ` Martin Bligh
2006-05-09  2:16               ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09  4:36             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-09  4:46               ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09  5:27                 ` Hua Zhong
2006-05-09  5:03               ` David Lang
2006-05-15  7:46                 ` Sander
2006-05-08 22:24         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-08 22:39           ` Lee Revell
2006-05-09  0:08           ` Peter Williams
2006-05-09 18:33           ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-05 17:58 Jason Schoonover
     [not found] <69c8K-3Bu-57@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-05-05 23:12 ` Robert Hancock
2006-05-06  4:39   ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-06 17:20     ` Robert Hancock
2006-05-06 18:23       ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-06 20:01         ` Robert Hancock

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