[Beowulf] LSI Megaraid stalls system on very high IO?

[Chris Samuel]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 03:13:39 PM mathog wrote:

> That may fix the problem but I am still curious about exactly what 
> happened during the terminal stalls.   Using the current cfq scheduler 
> what is going on in the system that is keeping those terminal processes 
> from getting any CPU time?

Not entirely sure, but you may get some idea with latencytop *if* it is able 
to get some time to run to return info.

cheers,
Chris
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