gbde data corruption?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030501143456.T43897-100000 at vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>, Fred Clift 
writes:
>On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Heiko Schaefer wrote:
>
>> hm... cpu seems to be not the limiting factor at all - that machine has an
>> athlon 1800+ and is idle >>50% most of the time. without understanding the
>> technical details, it seems to me that working on bigger chunks of the
>> disc at a time would result in much more throughput.
>
>So how are you measuring cpu?  I seem to remember that system load average
>and stats as reported by top dont include a good chunck of code executed
>by the kernel - some does and some doesn't.

Run "top -S" and look for something like this:

  503 root      -8    0     0K    12K g_bde    0:04  0.00%  0.00% g_bde ad0s1f.

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