Re: system heavy load

[Dave Patterson <sdpatt2@gmail.com>]

* Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> [2006-07-11 21:34:53 -0400]:

 
> I would start simpler than that.  Make sure that DMA is enabled on your
> hard drive(s).
> 
It is:

# hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
multcount    =  0 (off)
IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
using_dma    =  1 (on)
keepsettings =  0 (off)
readonly     =  0 (off)
readahead    = 256 (on)
geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 195371568, start = 0

And still, occaisionally I see the same style system loading as the
original poster mentioned.  I've been curious about this for a while.

-- 
Cheers,

  Dave