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Re: high load average



Have you checked your dma settings?  hdparm/hwtools?

Ramon Kagan
York University, Computing and Network Services
Unix Team -  Intermediate System Administrator
(416)736-2100 #20263
rkagan@yorku.ca

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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Jason Pepas wrote:

> the other day I was moving several gigs of files from one ide drive to
> another on the same ide chain (the secondary channel is broken) and my load
> average went up to around 7 (no, not 0.07).  The machine would become
> unresponsive for several seconds at a time.  This is a uniprocessor machine,
> both drives are ext2 filesystems.
>
> Is this normal?  I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like
> this before (this is a new install).
>
> -jason
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