Hammer: Low interactivity during high filesystem activity

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Just noticed while running blogbench on my hammer partition, that "top"
in another window took several seconds (around 10) to show up. The same
happened for "man". I have a dual core Athlon X2, and I don't see heavy
CPU load. As I am accessing the box over SSH (nfe0), could that be the
potential bottleneck?

Regards,

  Michael