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Subject: Re: weird system load (2.4.18-pre3)
To: Teodor.Iacob@astral.kappa.ro
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:48:24 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0202141244060.7065-100000@linux.kappa.ro> from "Teodor Iacob" at Feb 14, 2002 12:48:39 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I have a linux router running 2.4.18-pre3 kernel and I've got the
> following problem with it:
> 
> It doesn't have free cpu, more than 75% of the resources go to system:

Well its paging somewhat which suprises me, but unless your disks are in PIO
mode I would not expect it to account for that.

What network and disk drivers are you using ?

> ext3 mounted, and we had a lot of problems with ext3 when reaching maximum
> capacity ( after reboot had a lot of fatal errors ), but that seemed to

Thats not a good sign for trusting the machine either

> passed, and now we are getting this unusual load, plus the system is not
> so reponsive.

Not so responsive as when ?  also what is in the dmesg log ?
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