Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: >d. Came back in a patched kernel, 100% CPU usage is gone. I spoke too soon. After some more copying, the 100% CPU is back, but different: Before I had four or five HDDs, but in both cases I had four bcache_writebac processes running at 100%. Now I have four HDDs, and also four bcache_writebac processes, but only three of those run at 100% CPU. The fourth one is idle (mostly). -- Stephen. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html