Re: High load average on disk I/O on 2.6.17-rc3

Erik Mouw <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... except that any kernel < 2.6 didn't account tasks waiting for disk
> IO. Load average has always been somewhat related to tasks contending
> for CPU power.

Actually all Linux kernels accounted for diskwaits and others like BSD based
not. It is a very old linux oddness.

Gruss
Bernd
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