Re: CPU usage

[Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florin Andrei schrieb:
> 
> 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?...

I have been running Linux on XFS on a Pentium 200 with 64Mb Ram, four
IDE disks with Software Raid5 and LVM. This system was not so fast but
when there was no load CPU usage almost 0%. I guess there is something
else wrong with your systems.

-Simon

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