[ale] Load average high when disk usage is heavy

[James Sumners]

Nope. Nothing is ever written to a log when this happens. It has become less of
an issue since I installed a 2G swap drive but it still occurs.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:15:33 -0500
"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

> 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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