Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel

Andrew Morton
2002-12-11T23:02:05Z

Steven Roussey wrote:
>
> Was there ever a solution to this issue?

No. It wasn't clear what was going on.

> Is it kernel or ext3 based issue?

One of those.

> Is there a workaround?

Tried mounting all filesystems `-o noatime'?

> I've spent two months looking for a source and
> solution to this issue. It is pressing for me since all our users get locked
> out at the height of the spike. Ours is a webserver.
>

Is there much disk write activity? What journalling mode
are you using?

The output of `ps aux' during a stall would be interesting,
as would the `vmstat 1' ouptut.