Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751895AbWAEKA7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:00:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751901AbWAEKA7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:00:59 -0500 Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.185]:9961 "EHLO mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751895AbWAEKA7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 05:00:59 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: Aniruddh Singh Subject: Re: High load Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:00:44 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: linux References: <1136454597.6016.7.camel@aps.monsterindia.noida> In-Reply-To: <1136454597.6016.7.camel@aps.monsterindia.noida> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601052100.45107.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 24 On Thursday 05 January 2006 20:49, Aniruddh Singh wrote: > HI all, > > I have one compaq server with 4 Intel(R) Xeon cpu's (3.1GHZ), 4GB RAM. > OS:- Fedora Core 2 > Kernel:- 2.6.14 > > when i compile a new kernel, during th compilation process load goes > very high (10 and little above). i can not understand why does this > happen, while if i compile the same kernel on my P4 machine with 1GB ram > and 3GHZ, it remains under 3. > > can somebody tell me what is wrong? > - Sounds suspiciously like DMA is not working on your drives. Check your dmesg logs and what hdparm returns. Con - 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/