procs ------- r b 0-2 5-12What's different about I/O in 2.6 that a 2.4 kernel would outperform it under the same work volume?
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Aaron Thoreson wrote:Here is the output of vmstat (split across two lines for clarity)I hope you did something like vmstat 1 and ignored the first two or three lines...procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- r b swpd free buff cache si so 1 9 0 954120 0 1024624 0 0If that 'b' is right, there is your load. A lot of processes getting blocked waiting for IO.
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