[ale] Load average high when disk usage is heavy

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 19:48, James Sumners wrote:
> I have been having a really serious problem with load average and system
> response when processes access the disk a lot for quite a while now. I am
> wondering if anyone is having, or had, this problem? If so, do you have any
> ideas what I can do to fix this? I believe it started happening when I moved to
> the 2.6.x kernel series. With, and without, pre-emption enabled.

Check your logs. Are you having a problem with the IDE channel
resettting? read/write/IO errors?

I had a similar issue that was a precursor to a dead hard drive.

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