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From: Leonid Mamtchenkov <leonid@francoudi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.4.8] high load with disk operations
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:53:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010821095347.A14337@francoudi.com> (raw)

Dear all,

I have noticed that with kernel 2.4.8 my machine gets high load average
while perfoming disk operations like copying/moving some files.
Usually, my load average is 0.00 or 0.01 :) , but when I start copying
~200 MB from one disk to another, load average goes up to 2.50.  

My machine is PIII 664MHz, 128 MB RAM, 256 MB swap.

IDE devices:
hda: WDC WD100AA, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CREATIVECD-RW RW121032E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Compaq CRD-8402B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

Partition table of /dev/hda:
[root@leonid /root]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1292 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/hda1             1        33    249448+   5  Extended
   /dev/hda2            34       574   4089960   83  Linux
   /dev/hda3   *       575      1292   5428080   83  Linux
   /dev/hda5             1        33    249417   82  Linux swap
   

Is there any patch I should try?
TIA

-- 
 Best regards,
 Leonid Mamtchenkov
 Red Hat Certified Linux Engineer (RHCE)
 System Administrator
 Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd


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