On Sat, Feb 24 2001, Mark Swanson wrote:
> First, good job on the loop device. It's rock stable for me - except

thanks, glad to hear it.

> when I try to load the blowfish module which oops the kernel and
> crashes the loop device:-) No problem, I just use another cipher.

cipher bug or? never the less, could you ksymoops that and send
it along?

> The bug I'm reporting is that when a loop device is in use the load of
> the machine stays at 1.00 even though nothing is happening. If I umount
> the loop filesystem the load goes down to 0.00.
> 
> > ps -aux | grep loop
> 1674 tty1     DW<   0:00 [loop0]
> 
> The system is doing nothing to the loop filesystem.
> Strange that the process isn't logging any cpu usage time. It's
> definately responsible for the 1.00 load.

Oops, this slipped by me. Patch should fix it.

-- 
Jens Axboe