From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 3094] POOR I/O perfomance on VIA chipsets Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:07:12 GMT Message-ID: <201005201707.o4KH7CYP004884@demeter.kernel.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from demeter.kernel.org ([140.211.167.39]:41085 "EHLO demeter.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754375Ab0ETRHN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 13:07:13 -0400 Received: from demeter.kernel.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4KH7CLU004885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 20 May 2010 17:07:12 GMT In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3094 --- Comment #29 from Tejun Heo 2010-05-20 17:07:09 --- You're mixing load average and cpu usage. Two are somewhat related but not the same thing. If you don't understand that, just stay away from system monitoring utilities which distinguish idle and iowait. There are quite a few pretty monitoring graphical widgets which don't draw attention to iowait (either draw it the same as idle or in subtle tone). Your request to change the meaning of load avg is not different from requesting the kernel to add cached/buffered memory to free memory as some people can't wrap their heads around what those numbers actually mean. I don't think this is going anywhere and am fairly sure that further bug reports on the subject won't lead anywhere. Let's meet again in a more productive discussion. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug.