Re: debug a high load average

2005-08-24 Thread Mariusz Zielinski
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 06:40, you wrote: [...] > I am running 2.6.12 kernel on a laptop. I have an ipod attached to my > USB 1.1 as a drive on which I am saving and retreiving large > files(2-4GiB files). [...] Check if you are not using low performance usb driver (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB). If I

Re: debug a high load average

2005-08-23 Thread Rajesh
Erik Mouw wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:38:36PM +0530, Rajesh wrote: I have a case occasionally when I copy data from a usb storage (ipod) to my hard drive the load average goes up from 0.4 to about 15.0, and the system becomes very unusable till I kill the cp command. I have checked t

Re: debug a high load average

2005-08-23 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:38:36PM +0530, Rajesh wrote: > I have a case occasionally when I copy data from a usb storage (ipod) to > my hard drive the load average goes up from 0.4 to about 15.0, and the > system becomes very unusable till I kill the cp command. I have checked > the CPU usage, b