[TriLUG] load shooting up on large sequential copies

[Marvin Blackburn]

We have a problem where the load shoots up as well as sys cpu when we do
some large sequential copies.
We are copying two 500MB files from point a to point b.  Both filesystems
are ext3 on raid 5.

Does anyone have any ideas on what kernel tuneables might help with this
problem, or what mount options my be helpful.
Thanks.

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Marvin Blackburn
Systems Administrator
Glen Raven
"He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George