Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity
What kind of motherboard and harddisk ?
Caveman
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:18:03 +0200, Danie Roux <droux@tuks.co.za> wrote:
> Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8.
>
> In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that
> needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this:
>
> top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.88, 1.37
> Cpu0 : 10.3% us, 4.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 76.3% id, 8.7% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0%
> Cpu1 : 11.3% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 70.4% id, 15.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0%
>
> It gets so bad that the mouse starts jerking!
>
> Does anyone have some advice on where to start looking for optimizing?
>
> (hdparm -t looks fine)
>
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