[wellylug] CPU load

[Gordon Paynter]

Hi again:

> > As for the load average: it's made up of both
> > CPU and I/O ... so if you had that box being a
> > bridge between two high-speed interfaces that
> > may be one thing to investigate, or if the hdd
> > was running without dma and MySQL was quite busy ...

Looks like it is a DMA issuw.  Syslog is full of messages like this (I guess I 
should have looked there first):

Dec 12 14:11:11 df13 kernel: hda: DMA interrupt recovery
Dec 12 14:11:11 df13 kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Dec 12 14:11:11 df13 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64
Dec 12 14:11:11 df13 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64
Dec 12 14:11:11 df13 kernel: hda: DMA interrupt recovery
Dec 12 14:11:11 df13 kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Dec 12 14:11:11 df13 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64

I guess I'll email the Admin and write this machine off for now.

Gordon