Re: Strange load spikes on 2.4.19 kernel

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:21:14 -0700 (PDT)


From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 13 Oct 2002 09:24:32 +0200

It depends on your file system.
...
Still in 2.4 the VFS takes the big kernel lock unnecessarily
...
That's fixed in 2.5.

All true.

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