On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:35:26PM -0600, William Baker wrote:
> It's hard to tell.  The CPU is under a reasonable load (uptime shows 1.0 
> - 2.0), no swapping, and the hard drive is churning away continually.

The "load average" is relatively meaningless.  What's the actualy CPU
utilization as shown by top, vmstat, or similar tools?

> Is atime being updated continuously?  I'll mount with noatime and try it 
> again, though I suspect it is something else.  I forgot to mention file 
> system is ext2.

That could be, but it should affect things much either.

Jeremy
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