From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 03:03:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 03:03:26 -0400 Received: from [217.27.32.7] ([217.27.32.7]:14528 "EHLO leonid.francoudi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 03:03:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:53:47 +0300 From: Leonid Mamtchenkov To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.4.8] high load with disk operations Message-ID: <20010821095347.A14337@francoudi.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: Linux leonid.francoudi.com 2.4.8-lm1 X-Uptime: 9:32am up 4 days, 18:07, 7 users, load average: 1.31, 1.28, 0.86 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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