Could it be a boundary condition when the PCI bus gets saturated?

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Dobloug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:36 AM
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Subject: Re: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O.


* Jaye Mathisen
| 8 parallel DD's started at the same type creating 2GB cycbuffs (as fast as
| & can put them in the background).  (dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=2000
| of=blahblah)
| 
| Any brilliant ideas?

I've also experienced this on my scsi-drives (dual P2-350,
adaptec2940u2w controller). When doing extensive writes, this always
happens. The scan-rate (reported by vmstat) goes sky high, and the
system becomes unresponsive.

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