From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031678AbWLABJB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:09:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031680AbWLABJB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:09:01 -0500 Received: from ip-85-160-27-120.eurotel.cz ([85.160.27.120]:62224 "EHLO localhost") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031678AbWLABJA (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:09:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 02:08:59 +0100 From: "gary.czek" To: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ICH6M SATA Controller, SATA2 NCQ disk and high iowait CPU time Message-ID: <20061201020859.21db6dcb@localhost> In-Reply-To: <456F7C69.90800@gmail.com> References: <1164404380.20334.37.camel@localhost> <456A5936.9080903@gmail.com> <20061130180646.66dc622b@localhost> <456F7C69.90800@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Ubuntu Edgy Eft (Linux i686) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:50:49 +0900 Tejun Heo wrote: > Your machine is thrashing. Working set size is over the available > memory and pages are continuously getting dropped and then brought > back. Run top and press 'M' after the list showed up. It will show > who are consuming all the memory. Adding 1G should solve the problem > but just another 256M will make a big difference too. Well... The problem is solved. Thanks a lot for your time. I look forward for additional 1Gig. Thanks a lot twice more time.