Comment 124 for bug 620074

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In , toby (toby-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

We are not using CONFIG_NO_HZ and get high latency (subjective) while running:

dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=2048

Additionally, all 8 core cores go to at least 50% iowait, several peg at ~=95%.

We see similar results with:

2.6.18, 2.6.24, deadline, cfq.