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

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:24 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Erik Mouw <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ... except that any kernel < 2.6 didn't account tasks waiting for disk
> > IO. Load average has always been somewhat related to tasks contending
> > for CPU power.
> 
> Actually all Linux kernels accounted for diskwaits and others like BSD based
> not. It is a very old linux oddness.

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but IIRC BSD/OS also counted processes
waiting on IO towards the load average.

Lee

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