Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932083AbWELOEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 10:04:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932087AbWELOEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 10:04:13 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:54867 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932083AbWELOEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 May 2006 10:04:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4460E06D.5010903@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 14:33:17 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060409 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Eckenfels , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3 References: <20060508152255.GF1875@harddisk-recovery.com> In-Reply-To: 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: 965 Lines: 23 Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > 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. Well, sort of. The current numbers are counting kernel threads against load average, and before there were kernel threads that clearly didn't happen. So what you say is true, but it's only a part of the truth. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/