Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 09/11/04

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    Danie Roux wrote:

    > Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8.

    > In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that
    > needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this:

    > It gets so bad that the mouse starts jerking!

    Have you adjusted the priority of X? Check /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config -
    nice_value should be 0 (not -10) for 2.6 kernels.

    Adam 

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