From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750961AbXDHMCc (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:02:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751024AbXDHMCc (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:02:32 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34818 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750961AbXDHMCT (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:02:19 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+qCWlW/L6qTSJJMSJD4fjIy5NiltV9kquAydkeXd E9D+g8jtMMUhuP Subject: Re: Ten percent test From: Mike Galbraith To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , ck list In-Reply-To: <1176032450.6304.3.camel@Homer.simpson.net> References: <200703290237.38777.kernel@kolivas.org> <200704071630.25830.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20070408104125.GB11123@elte.hu> <200704080733.39303.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <1176032450.6304.3.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:02:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1176033735.6404.2.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:40 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 07:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > That seems to be the killer loading here, building a kernel (make -j3) > > doesn't seem to lag it all that bad. One session of gzip -best makes it > > fall plumb over though, which was a disappointment. > > Can you make a testcase that doesn't require amanda? Or at least send me a couple of 5 or 10 second top snapshots (which also show CPU usage of sleeping tasks) while the system is misbehaving? -Mike