Re: PROBLEM: Heavy iowait on 2.6 kernels

[Clint Byrum]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 01:35, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> I recently discovered why my new Gentoo server slows to a crawl on a
> intermediate load on the 2.6 kernel series.  The reason seems to be an
> unusual amount of iowait.

This appears similar to the problem both myself and Phy Prahbab reported
about 2.6 and hitting the disks too often. 

I'm wondering, what kind of workload does your machine see, and what
sort of disk system is in it?


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