yea.. sounds like IO wait to me, if the CPU isn't working, I/O will drive
the load up 1.0 for each stuck process.. happens with tape drives. and
such.. it probably is some kind of resource conflict.. that's my best
guess.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Yaron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok... here's the story.
>
> About a week ago I got a new MBoard and CPU. I used to have a FIC SD11
> with a 550MHz Athlon, now I have a Tyan 2380 with a 750MHz Athlon. Other
> than that I have changed nothing - same hardware, asame perihps, same
> kernel.
>
> But now the load-avarage is pretty much ALWAYS really high (like around
> 4). Top shows nothing stealing the large percentage of the CPU
> cycles. I was happily blaming Mozilla for a while till closing it didn't
> help (and no, there weren't any zombie mozillas).
>
> In fact, performance with this MBoard seems to be extremely bad.
>
> Does anyone else have a Tyan 2380, or any other Tyan MBoard? Can anyone
> think of why this might be? I've FINALLY got the thing not to share IRQs
> between all the card, so I know it's not that...
>
>
> -Yaron
>
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