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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Dieter N?tzel <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
Cc: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>,
	reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Horrible ftruncate performance
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:49:44 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030711144943.GE17180@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307111635.27904.Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>

Hello!

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:35:27PM +0200, Dieter N?tzel wrote:

> daul Athlon MP 1900+
> U160
> Argh! ---I can't kill it!
> No CNTL-C or '"killall -9 dd" or under "top".
> Even as root;-(

Yup. It spins in kernel mode not listening to signals busy doing balancing
for lots of zeroes, one at a time.

> 2.4.21-jam1 (aa1) plus all data-logging
> SOURCE/dri-trunk> time dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse bs=1 seek=200G count=1
> 0.000u 362.760s 8:26.34 71.6%   0+0k 0+0io 124pf+0w
> It was runinng with a paralell C++ (-j20) compilation.
> Is the mentioned patch needed?

Yes, patch is needed for any system that does not contain it.

Bye,
    Oleg

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-11 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-10  3:23 Horrible ftruncate performance Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-10  5:29 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-10  7:30   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-10  9:21     ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-10  8:17       ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-10 10:01         ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-10 14:01           ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-10 15:44             ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11 14:35       ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-11 14:49         ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2003-07-11 15:16           ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-11 15:24             ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11 15:27               ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-11 15:32                 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11 15:35                   ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-11 15:32               ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-11 15:36                 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-11 15:36                   ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-11 15:38                 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11 15:34               ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-11 15:44                 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-11 17:09                   ` Chris Mason
2003-07-11 17:27                     ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-11 18:32                       ` Chris Mason
2003-07-11 19:51                         ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-12  1:37                           ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-12  5:16                             ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-07-12  3:49                               ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-12 13:51                                 ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-15 12:19                                   ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-15 16:48                                     ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-15 17:05                                       ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-15 19:55                                         ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-16 10:35                                           ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-16 10:47                                             ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-16 10:57                                               ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-17 18:12                                                 ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-22 16:43                                         ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-22 16:50                                           ` Chris Mason
2003-07-22 18:09                                             ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-22 18:24                                               ` Chris Mason
2003-07-23  0:16                                                 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-23  6:25                                                   ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-23  5:49                                                     ` Voicu Liviu
2003-07-23  7:32                                                       ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-23  7:19                                                         ` Voicu Liviu
2003-07-23  6:14                                                 ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-23 14:38                                                   ` Chris Mason
2003-07-23 14:55                                                     ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-23 16:20                                                       ` Chris Mason
2003-07-23 12:25                                               ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-23 13:39                                                 ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-23 13:46                                                   ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-23 13:52                                                     ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-23 14:24                                                       ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-23 15:24                                                         ` Philippe Gramoullé
2003-07-12 14:05                             ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-13 13:00                               ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-13 12:58                             ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-14  8:45                               ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-13 13:03                             ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-15 11:51                               ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-07-15 13:51                                 ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-11 19:23                       ` Philippe Gramoullé
2003-08-03 14:05                     ` Hans Reiser
2003-08-04 13:41                       ` Chris Mason
2003-07-11 14:27   ` Chris Mason
2003-07-11 14:32     ` Dieter Nützel

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