Dave Patterson wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 18:01:24 -0400]: > > > >>Top is quite reliable. The load average represents how many processes >>are ready to run. If everything is trying to access the disk, your CPU >>utilization will be low (at least less than 100%) and yet you will have >>a high load average since many processes will be stuck waiting for the disk. >> > > > > Would it improve performance in this case to run a kernel with a different > preemption model, or would it make more sense to try different i/o > schedulers (anticipatory, deadline, or cfq) ? >
I would start simpler than that. Make sure that DMA is enabled on your hard drive(s). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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