From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10650 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2004 19:52:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10511 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2004 19:52:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (209.128.65.135) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Apr 2004 19:52:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 14171 invoked by uid 10); 6 Apr 2004 19:52:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 6654 invoked by uid 500); 6 Apr 2004 19:52:01 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: jifl@eCosCentric.com, dje@watson.ibm.com, overseers@sources.redhat.com, hp@bitrange.com From: Ian Lance Taylor To: Hans-Peter Nilsson Cc: Jonathan Larmour , David Edelsohn , overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: htdig and sources.redhat.com loadavg References: <200404051849.i35InoT27980@makai.watson.ibm.com> <20040405205147.GA21949@coc.bosbc.com> <200404061740.i36HeoT28142@makai.watson.ibm.com> <4072F04E.2050801@eCosCentric.com> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 19:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-q2/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 Hans-Peter Nilsson writes: > (Hmm, I *could* pipe that through gzip, which may also > temporarily help with the gcc problem... I'll try and look into > that later. Plenty of CPU on sourceware, it's the disk I/O > that's the problem. I guess (can't access > /proc/ide/hda/settings) that the IDE drives are still not using > DMA...) bash> cat /proc/ide/hda/settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- current_speed 0 0 70 rw init_speed 0 0 70 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw nice1 0 0 1 rw number 0 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 1 0 1 rw Looks to me like DMA is turned on for that drive. Ian