From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: jasons@pioneer-pra.com
Subject: Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 17:12:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445BDBED.7050101@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69c8K-3Bu-57@gated-at.bofh.it>
Jason Schoonover wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right list to post to, so please direct me to the
> appropriate list if this is the wrong one.
>
> I'm having some problems on the latest 2.6.17-rc3 kernel and SCSI disk I/O.
> Whenever I copy any large file (over 500GB) the load average starts to slowly
> rise and after about a minute it is up to 7.5 and keeps on rising (depending
> on how long the file takes to copy). When I watch top, the processes at the
> top of the list are cp, pdflush, kjournald and kswapd.
>
Are there some processes stuck in D state? These will contribute to the
load average even if they are not using CPU.
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2006-05-05 23:12 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-05-06 4:39 ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-06 17:20 ` Robert Hancock
2006-05-06 18:23 ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-06 20:01 ` Robert Hancock
2006-05-05 17:10 Jason Schoonover
2006-05-06 23:03 ` bert hubert
2006-05-07 1:02 ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-07 10:54 ` bert hubert
2006-05-07 16:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-07 17:24 ` Jason Schoonover
2006-05-08 11:13 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-08 11:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 11:28 ` Russell King
2006-05-08 11:38 ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-08 12:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-09 14:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-08 14:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-08 14:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 15:22 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-08 15:25 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-08 15:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-08 15:42 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-08 16:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-08 16:02 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2006-05-08 16:47 ` Russell King
2006-05-08 17:04 ` Gabor Gombas
2006-05-08 17:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-05-09 1:57 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09 2:02 ` Martin Bligh
2006-05-09 2:16 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09 4:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-09 4:46 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-09 5:27 ` Hua Zhong
2006-05-09 5:03 ` David Lang
2006-05-15 7:46 ` Sander
2006-05-08 22:24 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-05-08 22:39 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-09 0:08 ` Peter Williams
2006-05-09 18:33 ` Bill Davidsen
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