From: "David Arendt" <admin@prnet.org>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "David Arendt" <admin@prnet.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux 2.6.12 and IOWAIT
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:29:37 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51163.212.24.212.169.1119954577.squirrel@212.24.212.169> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050627214016.2046e29e.akpm@osdl.org>
> David Arendt <admin@prnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to following problem using kernel 2.6.12: IOWAIT is always at
>> 100% in top, the system seems to be significally slower. Any idea what
>> could lead to this ?
>
> Look for a process stuck in D state in the `ps aux' output.
>
The problem was spamassain, it was hanging while processing a mail
containing an aide report. After rebooting my machine, the mail was still
in queue and spamassasain started again. This happened at the same time I
upgraded to 2.6.12, therefore I thought it was due to it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 3:53 David Arendt
2005-06-28 4:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-28 6:37 ` Al Boldi
2005-06-28 10:29 ` David Arendt [this message]
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