On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote:
If its related to the FS driver ( inode table or algorithms ) the
program "slabtop" might give an indication of the kernel processes
eating system performance.
Slabtop is in the ps-tools suite, should be on any major linux distribution.
Interesting, never used slabtop. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for
but I'll read up on it.
-Mike