Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel

David S. Miller
2002-10-13T07:23:00Z

From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 13 Oct 2002 09:24:32 +0200

It depends on your file system.
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Still in 2.4 the VFS takes the big kernel lock unnecessarily
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That's fixed in 2.5.

All true.