From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx2.redhat.com (mx2.redhat.com [10.255.15.25]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j4QDB5P00545 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 09:11:05 -0400 Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4QDehfY032593 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 09:40:43 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DbHmr-0008SK-Kx for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:48:33 +0200 Received: from pd95eac6e.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.94.172.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:48:33 +0200 Received: from bill.mair by pd95eac6e.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:48:33 +0200 From: Bill Mair Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:48:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4295B7F7.9060802@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4295B7F7.9060802@hp.com> Sender: news Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Daemon or Thread with 5 minute interval Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Howard Rifkin wrote: > So, my question is does anyone know of a > kernel thread or daemon in the 2.4 kernel that wakes up every 5 minutes? [kupdated] can cause massive CPU load if your kernel does not have the IDE chipset support for your system. I think it flushed any data in the HD buffers to disk and if the chipset support isn't there, then the main CPU has to do this using PIO. -- Bill