From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760211AbZDXOSd (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:18:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756619AbZDXOSZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:18:25 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:49828 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756141AbZDXOSY (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:18:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:21:47 +0200 Message-ID: <878wlqqghw.wl%htd@fancy-poultry.org> From: Heinz Diehl To: Rutkov Denis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: High kernel CPU usage when copying files In-Reply-To: References: <20090424112348.64fb5c73@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-PGP-Key-Id: 0x3FAF957D X-Accept-Language: no, en, dk, se, de MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+Go6LEJ5Oo91BzEBrdUcZcH6PD+Y377GozEP3 c8NA2iYtVyHp0u2/TiH5aP00GEcx+ZDhDRBqqGszdnHXgI/5r1 pYmV4aB17cBdfUhLqa8v7izUEJXYkrc3t7NpEOnHEk= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:30:03 +0400, Rutkov Denis wrote: > However, I can check this to be sure, just tell me how. Do a "ps ax" on console and watch for processes which are flagged with a "D", these are the uninterruptable processes ("D-state"). You can also use the vmstat utility, the processes in blocked state show up in the second row on the left side, titled with a small "b" on top.