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

[Martin J. Bligh]

> It's pretty harmless though.  The "load average" thing just means that the
> extra pdflush threads are twiddling thumbs waiting on some disk I/O -
> they'll later exit and clean themselves up.  They won't be consuming
> significant resources.

If they're waiting on disk I/O, they shouldn't be runnable, and thus
should not be counted as part of the load average, surely?

M.
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