Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932448AbWEHRE1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 13:04:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932424AbWEHRE1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 13:04:27 -0400 Received: from boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu ([193.225.12.226]:47286 "EHLO boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932448AbWEHRE0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 13:04:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 19:04:24 +0200 From: Gabor Gombas To: Erik Mouw , Arjan van de Ven , "Martin J. Bligh" , Andrew Morton , Jason Schoonover , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 Message-ID: <20060508170424.GM22958@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> References: <200605051010.19725.jasons@pioneer-pra.com> <20060507095039.089ad37c.akpm@osdl.org> <445F548A.703@mbligh.org> <1147100149.2888.37.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060508152255.GF1875@harddisk-recovery.com> <1147102290.2888.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060508154217.GH1875@harddisk-recovery.com> <20060508164705.GC19040@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060508164705.GC19040@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> X-Copyright: Forwarding or publishing without permission is prohibited. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 22 On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:47:05PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > Seems to me that somethings wrong somewhere. Either that or the first > load average number no longer represents the load over the past one > minute. ... or just the load average statistics and the CPU usage statistics are computed using different algorithms and they thus estimate different things. At least the sampling frequency is surely different. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - 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/