Re: High load

[Con Kolivas]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 20:49, Aniruddh Singh wrote:
> HI all,
>
> I have one compaq server with 4 Intel(R) Xeon cpu's (3.1GHZ), 4GB RAM.
> OS:- Fedora Core 2
> Kernel:- 2.6.14
>
> when i compile a new kernel, during th compilation process load goes
> very high (10 and little above). i can not understand why does this
> happen, while if i compile the same kernel on my P4 machine with 1GB ram
> and 3GHZ, it remains under 3.
>
> can somebody tell me what is wrong?
> -

Sounds suspiciously like DMA is not working on your drives. Check your dmesg 
logs and what hdparm returns.

Con
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