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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:02:36 +0200
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Charles-Edouard Ruault <ce@ruault.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.21 , large disk write => system crawls
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Charles-Edouard Ruault <ce@ruault.com> :
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> when i do a large disk write operation ( copy a big file for example ), 
> the whole system becomes very busy ( system goes into 99% cpu 
> utilization in kernel mode ), other tasks are stopped ( for example 

Please add:
- 'vmstat 1' output before/after/during slowdown;
- dmesg output after boot.

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