Re: kernel 2.4.21 , large disk write => system crawls

From: Francois Romieu (romieu@fr.zoreil.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 17:02:36 EST

Charles-Edouard Ruault <ce@ruault.com> :
[...]
> when i do a large disk write operation ( copy a big file for example ),
> the whole system becomes very busy ( system goes into 99% cpu
> utilization in kernel mode ), other tasks are stopped ( for example

Please add:
- 'vmstat 1' output before/after/during slowdown;
- dmesg output after boot. 

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Ueimor
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