Brian May <[email protected]> writes: > I was running a unison sync to a remote ssh server, iotop was saying no (or > low) disk I/O, top says up to 60% iowait, and basic tasks (e.g. clicking on > xterm or selecting text in xterm) take ages (system appears to be frozen). > Oh, and no swap being used, have 16GB ram with relatively few processes > running. This seems to be typical. > > iotop and iosnoop don't seem to report anything abnormal that I can see > using the disk. There are cron jobs that run at times, however these > problems occur with no cron jobs running (and basic cron jobs shouldn't > kill a modern system in any case). > > Not absolutely convinced this is a disk I/O problem, however something > weird is happening here.
ionice -c3 unison on both hosts? Does the problem occur with rsync? _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
