Hi, On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 22:55, Kevin Clark wrote: > I am getting an odd situation when backing up a number of ext3 filesystems > and was wondering if it could be caused by journalling. Over the space of > a minute the load average will jump from 2 to over 40 and the system will > be unresponsive for anywhere from 8 to 25 minutes. I am going to be trying > a number of things, but was wondering if anyone could see the reason for > the high load given the following statistics collected after the system > started to semi-respond. No, nothing that I can see. I'd check the system logs for signs of problems in the IO subsystem, though. > It is not clear what is being reported by the "load average" indicator > under the Linux operating system... one can assume that it is including > processes blocking on IO. That's right --- it's the total number of tasks in either R or D state. And in your trace, there are only 5 such tasks, so the trace has obviously missed the point of massive system load. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
