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From: Christian Schmid <webmaster@rapidforum.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:27:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4231F112.60403@rapidforum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4231ED18.2050804@candelatech.com>

Ben Greear wrote:
> Christian Schmid wrote:
> 
>> OHGAWD I GOT IT!!!!!!!!
>>
>> I admit, totally coincidentially but its really FIXED. Today I went to 
>> the puter scanning the servers by routine and wondered why the 
>> bandwidth is at 100% without any holes.
>>
>> The only thing I have done is I switched off hyper-threading because 
>> the server is at only 20% CPU anyway so I just disabled it.
>>
>> So its something with linux dealing with hyper-threading. YAY :)
> 
> 
> For what it's worth, I was running dual-xeon systems with HT turned on.
> 
> But, I have a single process, single-threaded application, so there is 
> not much
> scheduling to be done.  If you have a large number of threads or processes,
> then it would make more sense for turning off HT to have an affect.

This effect appeared on 1 task and on 200 tasks. I dont know what it is, but with HT off it doesnt 
appear anymore. The slow-down still appears when lower_zone_protection is set to 0 but the peak at 
80 MB disappeared when set to 1024. I am now running at 95 MB/Sec smoothly.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-05 17:10 BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down Christian Schmid
2005-03-07  0:45 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  1:13 ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  1:58   ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-07  2:57     ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  5:14       ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  5:30         ` Willy Tarreau
2005-03-07  5:41           ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  5:42             ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  5:46               ` Willy Tarreau
2005-03-07  9:22         ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  9:28           ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-08  6:30             ` Ben Greear
2005-03-08 16:41               ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-09 23:45                 ` Ben Greear
2005-03-09 23:52                   ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-10  0:18                     ` Ben Greear
2005-03-10  0:24                       ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-10  5:17                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  9:00                           ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-10  9:09                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  9:12                               ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-10  9:38                                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 19:03                             ` Ben Greear
2005-03-10 18:51                           ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-10 19:06                           ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-11 15:29                           ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-11 19:10                             ` Ben Greear
2005-03-11 19:27                               ` Christian Schmid [this message]
2005-03-14  4:40                                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-14  4:53                                   ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-14  5:04                                     ` Nick Piggin
2005-05-28  3:17                                       ` Christian Schmid
2005-06-08  2:26                                       ` Christian Schmid
2005-06-08  2:39                                         ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-08  2:44                                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 14:35       ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-07 23:37         ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  2:07   ` Christian Schmid

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