Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261969AbVBAKWF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2005 05:22:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261968AbVBAKWF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2005 05:22:05 -0500 Received: from webhosting.rdsbv.ro ([213.157.185.164]:19623 "EHLO webhosting.rdsbv.ro") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261960AbVBAKV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2005 05:21:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:21:57 +0200 (EET) From: "Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE" X-X-Sender: util@webhosting.rdsbv.ro To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Strange vmstat output. 2.6.10 Scheduler? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2258 Lines: 44 Hello! I have a weird problem with a server. I use deadline. The output of vmstat is: 1 1 12312 6064 7580 815432 0 0 5332 456 1263 3119 22 5 0 73 0 1 12312 5280 7584 816240 0 0 6204 620 1307 1530 15 4 0 81 0 1 12312 6096 7528 815088 0 0 7604 8732 1256 1398 5 8 0 87 0 1 12312 6048 7528 815144 0 0 8 8 1243 1440 14 2 0 84 0 1 12312 6048 7528 815168 0 0 0 0 1261 1287 8 2 0 90 0 2 12312 6040 7584 815184 0 0 0 0 1258 1197 7 2 0 91 0 2 12312 6024 7584 815208 0 0 0 0 1265 1309 6 5 0 89 0 2 12312 6024 7584 815208 0 0 0 136 1253 365 2 2 0 96 0 2 12312 5984 7584 815208 0 0 0 0 1268 413 2 1 0 97 0 2 12312 6052 7584 815208 0 0 0 0 1270 375 2 1 0 97 1 0 12312 6164 7584 815156 0 0 6188 288 1270 4314 23 5 0 72 0 1 12312 5684 7536 815592 0 0 4128 8656 1270 1316 14 3 0 83 0 1 12312 5684 7536 815608 0 0 0 0 1258 1251 8 3 0 89 0 1 12312 5552 7536 815628 0 0 0 0 1258 1327 8 2 0 90 0 1 12312 5552 7536 815644 0 0 0 0 1264 1127 7 2 0 91 0 1 12312 5552 7536 815668 0 0 0 2 1258 1225 8 3 0 89 0 3 12312 5248 7588 816108 0 0 4340 585 1249 1316 7 3 0 90 0 2 12312 5612 7584 815680 0 0 3092 188 1254 411 3 1 0 96 0 2 12312 5564 7584 815676 0 0 0 0 1261 259 2 2 0 96 0 2 12312 5564 7584 815676 0 0 0 0 1254 348 2 1 0 97 It seems strange because iowait is at 90% but nothing is trasnfered to/from disk. Why is that? I run postgresql on this server and I'm not satistied by it's speed. Single Pentium IV, IDE disk. What can be the problem? Thank you very much! --- Catalin(ux aka Dino) BOIE catab at deuroconsult.ro http://kernel.umbrella.ro/ - 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/