Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751326AbWEHWYT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 18:24:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751327AbWEHWYT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 18:24:19 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:25580 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751326AbWEHWYS (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 18:24:18 -0400 From: be-news06@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: <20060508152255.GF1875@harddisk-recovery.com> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.13.4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 00:24:16 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 580 Lines: 15 Erik Mouw wrote: > ... except that any kernel < 2.6 didn't account tasks waiting for disk > IO. Load average has always been somewhat related to tasks contending > for CPU power. Actually all Linux kernels accounted for diskwaits and others like BSD based not. It is a very old linux oddness. Gruss Bernd - 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/