Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261450AbTE1WxS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 18:53:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261548AbTE1WxS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 18:53:18 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:40569 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261450AbTE1Www (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 18:52:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:03:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Lukasz Trabinski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, solarz@wsisiz.edu.pl Subject: Re: Slocate/backup, big load on 2.4.X Message-Id: <20030528160343.78980b13.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 May 2003 23:06:08.0390 (UTC) FILETIME=[B91DB260:01C3256D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 17 Lukasz Trabinski wrote: > > After 12 hours of reboot, when updatedb is running or backup via amanda, > system "get" very high load, High load isn't necesarily a problem - it just means that a lot of processes are waiting on disk I/O. Because updatedb is flogging the disks. Do a full "ps aux" listing and you'll probably see lots of processes in "D" state, waiting for the disk head to seek across and read whatever it is they are trying to read. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/