From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 12 13:26:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.aye.net (phoenix.aye.net [198.7.192.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E9CF37B75B for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 13:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barrett@aye.net) Received: (qmail 25735 invoked by uid 1000); 12 May 2000 20:26:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 May 2000 20:26:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:26:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Barrett Richardson To: Nazar Kulynych Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: high load In-Reply-To: <00051113444502.00773@ix.register.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 11 May 2000, Nazar Kulynych wrote: > when I do rm or tar -zxf the load gets upto 5.00 > on a pentium 200mmx with 48MB ram. > > I can't figure out what's going on > > Thanx in advance > > Lot and lots of file creation/deletion probably causes lots and lots of synchronous meta-data updates. - Barrett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message