* Re: PROBLEM: Page allocation failure
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@ 2005-12-20 4:02 ` Nathan Scott
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From: Nathan Scott @ 2005-12-20 4:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Aaron Kulbe; +Cc: linux-kernel, xfs-masters, linux-xfs, hch
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:55:56PM -0600, Aaron Kulbe wrote:
> [1.] SUMMARY: During rsync and heavy I/O operations, we experienced
> abnormally slow response times on the file server.
> ...
> [4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version): Linux version 2.6.8-24.14-bigsmp (
Try a recent kernel, both XFS and the VM have moved on in leaps
and bounds since 2.6.8 timeframe.
> I tried Christoph Hellwig's suggestion from
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=345 of increasing the value of
> /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes. I set the value to 1024. The results were
> the same. No change in performance, and errors persisted.
There were older kernel versions where that parameter was not
being honoured particularly well, I can't recall anymore if it
was 2.6.8 or not though - it may well have been.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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