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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help understanding slow down
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:42:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B16105.8060500@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040524015153.32010.qmail@web90003.mail.scd.yahoo.com>

Phy Prabab wrote:
> Okay, so ran the test with vmstat running.  I ran it
> capturing every 1 sec.  Here is an excert:
> 
> procs                      memory      swap         
> io     system         cpu
>  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi   bo   in    cs us sy id wa
>  1  0      0 8153848  17000  82348    0    0     0   0 4568  4028  6 16 78  0
>  0  1      0 8154168  17008  82340    0    0     0 160 4596  4079  7 17 76  1
>  1  0      0 8153848  17008  82340    0    0     0   0 4511  3998  7 16 76  0
>  1  0      0 8153912  17008  82340    0    0     0   0 4460  3952  7 14 79  0
>  1  0      0 8153784  17016  82332    0    0     0   0 4437  3962  7 16 77  0
>  1  0      0 8153528  17016  82332    0    0     0   0 4444  3927  7 14 78  0
>  1  1      0 8153784  17024  82392    0    0     0 144 4399  3895  7 15 77  1
>  0  0      0 8153592  17024  82392    0    0     0   0 4367  3821  7 15 78  0
>  1  0      0 8153848  17024  82392    0    0     0   0 4393  3926  6 16 78  0
>  1  0      0 8153528  17024  82460    0    0     0   0 4438  3960  8 14 78  0
>  1  0      0 8154040  17024  82460    0    0     0   0 4415  3912  6 15 78  0
>  1  1      0 8153720  17032  82452    0    0     0 140 4457  3953  7 15 77  1
>  1  0      0 8153784  17032  82452    0    0     0   0 4437  3889  7 14 79  0
>  0  0      0 8153784  17040  82444    0    0     0   0 4398  3903  8 15 77  0
>  1  0      0 8153464  17040  82444    0    0     0   0 4398  3902  7 14 79  0
>  0  0      0 8153528  17040  82444    0    0     0   0 4447  3922  6 17 77  0
>  0  1      0 8153720  17052  82432    0    0     0 144 4490  3960  6 16 77  1
>  0  0      0 8153656  17056  82428    0    0     0   0 4449  3954  7 15 78  0
> 

Funny, you are basically not doing any IO at all.
How many CPUs are in your system?

As WLI noted, 2.6 is still taking more system time,
so a profile might still be useful.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-24  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-24  0:32 Help understanding slow down Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  0:57 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  1:04   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  1:25     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24  1:28       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  1:51         ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  2:42           ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-05-24  2:43           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24  6:23             ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  6:27               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  6:39                 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:21                   ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:44                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  7:50                       ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:59                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24 10:43                           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24 14:13                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-24  7:53                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24  8:00                     ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-25 10:32                     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25  9:29                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 11:42                         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25  9:58                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 12:25                             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24  6:33   ` Paul Rolland
2004-05-24 17:28     ` Roger Luethi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-24  1:37 Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24  1:50 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  3:31 ` Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24  6:14   ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 18:36     ` Robert M. Stockmann

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