Re: kswapd, kupdated, and bdflush at 99% under intense IO

2001-04-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Any time I start injecting lots of mail into the qmail queue, *one* of the > > two processors gets pegged at 99%, and it takes forever for anything typed > > at the console to actually appear (just as you describe). But I don't see > > Yes I've seen this

Re: kswapd, kupdated, and bdflush at 99% under intense IO

2001-04-10 Thread Alan Cox
> Any time I start injecting lots of mail into the qmail queue, *one* of the > two processors gets pegged at 99%, and it takes forever for anything typed > at the console to actually appear (just as you describe). But I don't see Yes I've seen this case. Its partially still a mystery > Upon pow

RE: kswapd, kupdated, and bdflush at 99% under intense IO

2001-04-10 Thread Phil Oester
I do intense mailings. -Phil Oester -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Lessem Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: kswapd, kupdated, and bdflush at 99% under intense IO My machine is an 8 processor Dell P

kswapd, kupdated, and bdflush at 99% under intense IO

2001-04-10 Thread Jeff Lessem
My machine is an 8 processor Dell P-III 700Mhz with 8GB of memory. The disk system I am using is a 12 drawer JBOD with 5 disks in a raid 5 arrangement attached to an AMI Megaraid 438/466/467/471/493 controller with a total of 145GB of space. The machine has been in use for about 6 months doing pr