On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:42:36AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti scribbled:
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> > Has anyone had similar problems with 2.4.28 in an environment resembling the
> > above? Could it be a problem with highmem i/o?
> 
> Nothing that I'm aware of should cause such increase in loadavg.
> 
> Marek, can you please try 2.4.28-pre1 ?
I should be able to schedule that on Friday. Currently, we're running 2.4.28
on one of the machines (the non-virtual) but with mem=800M to exclude
highmem. So far - no problems... We'll see how it goes on

best regards,

marek