Re: Quad core CPUs loaded at only 50% when running a CPU and mmapintensive multi-threaded task

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Aug 25 2008 - 01:52:44 EST


On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 00:01 +0300, TÃrÃk Edwin wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> When I run clamd (www.clamav.net), I can only get to load my CPU 50%
> (according to top), and disks at 30% (according to iostat -x 3),
> regardless how many threads I set (I tried 4, 8, 16, 32).


Can you share your .config, and prehaps tell what kernel version did
work for you?

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