Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >FWIW, Aaron was telling me that he remembers seeing high run-queue >lengths on machines with failing hard drives. Can anyone reproduce >this behavior (high run-queue with idle CPU) on any other machines? >Perhaps we could perform some testing on icarus (which should be a >daedalus clone). >
The other way to isolate the problem would be to get a snapshot of what the kernel is doing on daedalus during these spikes. Is there a way to do that in FreeBSD? --Brian
