Re: high cpu load with sw raid1

[David Hajek]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2001  10:26 +0200, David Hajek wrote:
> > I have linux box with 70GB SW Raid1. This box runs for half
> > a year without problems but now I meet the high cpu load 
> > problems. I suspect that it can be caused by not enough 
> > free disk space on this md device. I see following:
> > 
> > 1 GB free  - load > 5
> > 5 GB free  - load < 1
> 
> What filesystem are you using?  If it is reiserfs, and you have < 10%
> of the disk free, it is very unhappy.  A patch to fix this is available.
> 

I'm using ext2. I suspect high ext2 fragmentation, because when
there are 'only' 1GB free the disk is _really_ busy. I doubt
that it takes lot of time to find free blocks. 

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