Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932183AbWEHOYR (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 10:24:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932185AbWEHOYR (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 10:24:17 -0400 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:40417 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932183AbWEHOYR (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 10:24:17 -0400 Message-ID: <445F548A.703@mbligh.org> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 07:24:10 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jason Schoonover , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 References: <200605051010.19725.jasons@pioneer-pra.com> <20060507095039.089ad37c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060507095039.089ad37c.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 622 Lines: 14 > It's pretty harmless though. The "load average" thing just means that the > extra pdflush threads are twiddling thumbs waiting on some disk I/O - > they'll later exit and clean themselves up. They won't be consuming > significant resources. If they're waiting on disk I/O, they shouldn't be runnable, and thus should not be counted as part of the load average, surely? M. - 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/