Re: Slocate/backup, big load on 2.4.X

Lukasz Trabinski (lukasz@lt.wsisiz.edu.pl)
Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:37:11 +0200


In article <5.2.1.1.0.20030529070827.03f6c290@oceanic.wsisiz.edu.pl> you wrote:
> At 01:03 2003-05-29, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > After 12 hours of reboot, when updatedb is running or backup via amanda,
>> > system "get" very high load,
>>
>>High load isn't necesarily a problem - it just means that a lot of
>>processes are waiting on disk I/O. Because updatedb is flogging the disks.
>
> For me it is problem because whole machine "freezes" (no reaction on
> anything) for 2-3 minutes.... - and after 2-3 minutes it has load about
> 50-100 - I think that it has higher load (>100) when it "freezes" then
> after next 2-3 minutes situation repeates....

No one know what's up with it? It stil appears in 2.4.21-rc6. How to fix it?
We can't do backups :(

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*[ Łukasz Tr±biński ]*
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