Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel

Andrew Morton
2002-12-12T00:05:53Z

Steven Roussey wrote:
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> 500 32429 0.3 1.1 41948 9148 ? R 15:19 0:06 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL

Looks like all your apache instances woke up and started doing something.
What makes you think it's a kernel or ext3 thing?

If there were processes there in `D' state then it would probably
be related to filesystem activity. But that does not appear to
be the case.