removing backups freezes system a while
I'm having a real weird problem all of a sudden on my redhat machine.
I have some old backups of +/- 700MB per file that i removed and then after about 5 minutes the machine gets real slow and eventually freezes up, this might take 5 to 15 minutes and then the machine responds again.
I've looked at 'top' and i see that the RM command stays listed in there, consuming 5-15% of my cpu. If i removed more than one file there are more RM's in there.
The top process it kswapd taking 20-50% cpu usually.
I've googles a lot already but i haven't found a satisfying answer so far.
Could this be a disc problem? Or can i configure something to fix this?
I've looked at /var/log/messages and there is nothing unusual there.
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