Re: kupdated using all CPU

[john]

[Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:13:06PM -0800] [e-mail] wrote:
+ john wrote:
+ > 
+ > hi,
+ > ive searched all over and found many references to this problem, but
+ > never found an actual solution.  the problem is that during heavy
+ > disk I/O, kupdated will periodically take up ALL the cpu.  
+ 
+ I've seen a couple of reports of this, nothing to indicate that it's
+ a common problem?
+ 
+ In the other reports, it was related to extremely low disk throughput.
+ What does `hdparm -t /dev/hda' say?

root@doom:~# hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 25.60 seconds =  2.50 MB/sec