kjournald using too much CPU

[Mike Smith <mismith@xxxxxxx>]

hey, kjournald is using up a lot of my processor.  It slows down my entire system when I try to do any disk intensive activities. Any ideas why?

Also, does anybody know why my system would not be using any of it's swap?

here's a screenshot of my top:

 15:38:09 up 23:22,  3 users,  load average: 2.12, 2.19, 2.23
67 processes: 60 sleeping, 7 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   4.2% user,  94.6% system,   0.0% nice,   1.2% idle
Mem:    775068K total,   763340K used,    11728K free,   164688K buffers
Swap:  1052216K total,        0K used,  1052216K free,   351924K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
   11 root      19   0     0    0     0 SW   63.6  0.0 601:00 kjournald
   93 root      13   0   756  756   648 R    24.1  0.0 204:16 syslogd
  702 root      10   0   488  488   400 S     6.3  0.0  70:50 tcpd
  201 root       9   0  273M  16M  4244 R     0.7  2.2   1:51 X
  210 mismith    9   0  2508 2508  1744 S     0.3  0.3   0:10 wmaker
   29 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.1  0.0   0:01 kjournald
 1474 mismith    9   0 10888  10M  4748 R     0.1  1.4   0:20 xmms
 1924 root       9   0  2176 2172  1696 R     0.1  0.2   0:00 xterm
 1942 root      10   0   988  988   772 R     0.1  0.1   0:00 top
 1947 mismith    9   0 10888  10M  4748 R     0.1  1.4   0:00 xmms
 1948 mismith    9   0 10888  10M  4748 R     0.1  1.4   0:00 xmms
    1 root       9   0   216  216   184 S     0.0  0.0   0:06 init
    2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    3 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:02 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    4 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   1:23 kswapd
    5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
    6 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:19 kupdated