From: Clint Byrum <cbyrum@spamaps.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Heavy iowait on 2.6 kernels
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:15:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087366549.1190.6.camel@lancelot> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086942905.10540.69.camel@cronos.home.vsb>
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 01:35, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> I recently discovered why my new Gentoo server slows to a crawl on a
> intermediate load on the 2.6 kernel series. The reason seems to be an
> unusual amount of iowait.
This appears similar to the problem both myself and Phy Prahbab reported
about 2.6 and hitting the disks too often.
I'm wondering, what kind of workload does your machine see, and what
sort of disk system is in it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-16 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-11 8:35 PROBLEM: Heavy iowait on 2.6 kernels Guy Van Sanden
2004-06-12 6:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-16 6:15 ` Clint Byrum [this message]
2004-06-16 7:25 ` Guy Van Sanden
2004-06-16 7:45 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-16 12:21 ` Guy Van Sanden
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