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From: Sven Geggus <sven-im-usenet@gegg.us>
Subject: Re: pdflush eating a lot of CPU on heavy NFS I/O
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:18:46 +0200 (CEST)
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> It's a shame this wasn't reported earlier.

I did report this behaviour in <c6gi0f$g6i$1@benzin.geggus.net> a few days
ago.

> Please confirm that the problem is observed on the NFS client and not the
> NFS server?  I'll assume the client.

Shure! The problem is observed on the NFS client, a diskless machine in my
case.

> What other filesystems are in use on the client?

Non in my case!

> Please describe the NFS mount options and the number of CPUs and the amount
> of memory in the machine.

NFS mount options are default and my machine does not use an SMP Kernel (AMD
Athlon 2000+, Single CPU).

Sven

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