Re: Tasks raising to 95% of %CPU

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:47:18 +0100 (BST)


> happens when a task is exiting. Until now we suspected our DB server (Solid 2.3)
> but recently this problem appeared when a program not using the DB
> was exiting.

Its sort of solid doing it I think.

> Are there some tools/utilities/procedure we can use to better determine the
> source of this problem ?

If its the solid problem you want the patch that makes the e2fs fsync
do a sync_dev() not walk the file blocks.

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