Florin Andrei wrote:
>
> I've heard someone complaining about high CPU usage with XFS, especially
> on low-clocked machines.
> Someone told me that, on some PII at 266 and 400 MHz, running Linux on
> XFS, CPU usage is 10-15% all the time, even when the machine is supposed
> to be idle.
> I find this hard to believe, since on a lowly Indy, at 180 MHz, CPU
> usage is 0.00% when the machine is idle.
> Any idea?...
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
> "Our kernel does have source control: its name is
> Linus Torvalds, CVS with a brain." - Nicholas Knight
Maybe an IDE drive is being used without DMA. That forces cpu use for
quite a few disk operations.
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