Re: Slocate/backup, big load on 2.4.X

[Bartlomiej Solarz-Niesluchowski (B.Solarz-Niesluchowski@wsisiz.edu.pl)]

At 01:03 2003-05-29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > After 12 hours of reboot, when updatedb is running or backup via amanda,
> > system "get" very high load,
>
> High load isn't necesarily a problem - it just means that a lot of
> processes are waiting on disk I/O.  Because updatedb is flogging the disks.

For me it is problem because whole machine "freezes" (no reaction on 
anything) for 2-3 minutes.... - and after 2-3 minutes it has load about 
50-100 - I think that it has higher load (>100) when it "freezes" then 
after next 2-3 minutes situation repeates....


> Do a full "ps aux" listing and you'll probably see lots of processes in "D"
> state, waiting for the disk head to seek across and read whatever it is
> they are trying to read.

In top I can see that many processes are in state R (e.g. over 50)....

Strange it is that on slover machine (2*1GHz) and slover disks (7200 / 
160Mb/s) this was no "strange" effect like this....

Best Regards

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