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From: john <john@zlilo.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: john <john@zlilo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kupdated using all CPU
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:19:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020218141920.D2586@doom.sfo.covalent.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020218134041.A2586@doom.sfo.covalent.net> <3C717C72.72A994D3@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3C717C72.72A994D3@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:13:06PM -0800

[Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:13:06PM -0800] akpm@zip.com.au wrote:
+ john wrote:
+ > 
+ > hi,
+ > ive searched all over and found many references to this problem, but
+ > never found an actual solution.  the problem is that during heavy
+ > disk I/O, kupdated will periodically take up ALL the cpu.  
+ 
+ I've seen a couple of reports of this, nothing to indicate that it's
+ a common problem?
+ 
+ In the other reports, it was related to extremely low disk throughput.
+ What does `hdparm -t /dev/hda' say?

root@doom:~# hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 25.60 seconds =  2.50 MB/sec


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-18 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-18 21:40 john
2002-02-18 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-18 22:19   ` john [this message]
2002-02-18 22:47     ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-19  4:53       ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-02-19 17:42         ` john

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