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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Florian Hars <florian@hars.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk-I/O and kupdated@99.9% system (2.4.18-pre9)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 11:31:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C681C1D.9D9819BF@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020208164250.GA321@bik-gmbh.de>

Florian Hars wrote:
> 
> I have an ext[23] filesystem (doesn't matter which), on an LVM Volume.
> Whenever I do some heavy disk-I/O (like untaring an archive with 13000
> files that amount to 5GB), the CPU-state repeatedly goes to 99.9%
> system and stays there for a noticeable amount of time (1-2 seconds),
> during which the system doesn't respond very well to user action, to put
> it mildly.

A kernel profile will presumably point us at the problem.

It's pretty simple. See
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.3/0773.html

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-11 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-08 16:42 Disk-I/O and kupdated@99.9% system (2.4.18-pre9) Florian Hars
     [not found] ` <20020210115509.GA493@chiara.cavy.de>
2002-02-11 11:55   ` Florian Hars
2002-02-11 11:59     ` Florian Hars
2002-02-11 19:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-11 19:58   ` 2.5.4 error building vmlinuz Kirk Reiser
2002-02-12 10:20 ` Unknown Southbridge (was: Disk-I/O and kupdated@99.9% system (2.4.18-pre9)) Florian Hars
2002-02-12 10:23   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-12 13:36     ` Florian Hars
2002-02-12 13:38       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-13 11:42         ` Florian Hars

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