Re: system heavy load

[Dave Patterson <sdpatt2@gmail.com>]

* Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> [2006-07-11 18:01:24 -0400]:

 
> Top is quite reliable.  The load average represents how many processes
> are ready to run.  If everything is trying to access the disk, your CPU
> utilization will be low (at least less than 100%) and yet you will have
> a high load average since many processes will be stuck waiting for the disk.
> 


Would it improve performance in this case to run a kernel with a different
preemption model, or would it make more sense to try different i/o
schedulers (anticipatory, deadline, or cfq) ?

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Cheers,

  Dave