Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3

[bert hubert]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:02:47PM -0700, Jason Schoonover wrote:

> The interesting thing was that after I did a Ctrl-C on the ncftpget, the id 
> column was still at 0, even though the ncftpget process was over.  The id 
> column was at 0 and the 'wa' column was at 98, up until all of the pdflush 
> processes ended.
> 
> Is that the expected behavior?

Yes - data is still being written out. 'wa' stands for waiting for io. As
long as 'us' and 'sy' are not 100 (together), your system ('computing
power') is not 'busy'.

The lines below are perfect:
>  0  2     40  47816   7888 1920116    0    0     0 36264 1354    56  0  1  0 99
>  0  2     40  48312   7888 1920116    0    0     0 36248 1362    52  0  1  0 99

Wether you should have 5 pdflushes running is something I have no relevant
experience about, but your system should function just fine during writeout.

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