Re: Linux responsiveness under heavy load

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 17:59:04 EST


On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Frasnelli, Dan wrote:

>[..] the kernel was probably busy juggling
>interrupts. [..]

There's no irq/bh load during heavy I/O heavy swap stress (some irq
happens but the frequency is too low to make a performance difference).

Andrea

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