Holger Kiehl wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Al Boldi wrote: > > You may be hitting a 2.6 kernel bug, which has something to do with > > readahead, ask Jens Axboe about it! (see "[git patches] IDE update" > > thread) Sadly, 2.6.13 did not fix it either. > > I did read that threat, but due to my limited understanding about kernel > code, don't see the relation to my problem. Basically the kernel is loosing CPU cycles while accessing bockdevices. The problem shows most when the CPU/DISK ratio is low. Throwing more CPU cycles at the problem may seemingly remove this bottleneck. > But I am willing to try any patches to solve the problem. No patches yet. > > Did you try 2.4.31? > > No. Will give this a try if the problem is not found. Keep us posted! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
