Re: [Xen-users] performance problems

[Per Andreas Buer <perbu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eric S. Johansson skrev:

> running a chgrp -R over a series of directories on an LVM partition 
> and I noticed that it was taking forever.  So I ran vmstat (sorry 
> about the line wrapping) and found that it was spending roughly 99 
> percent to 100 percent of the time waiting for (disk??) io.
Why is this a bad thing? Does the CPU have anything else to spend its 
time on? This sound normal to me. You might also want to tell us how 
this is relevant to Xen. :-)
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