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From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with nice values and cpu consumption in 2.6.11-5
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:52:18 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4278B772.5080806@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17015.35256.12650.37887@fisica.ufpr.br>

This is a real problem with O(1)-scheduler in 2.6... :(
The only workaround for you right now is to run 2.4 or move to some type 
of virtualization solutions with fair cpu scheduler...

Kirill

> Look at this cpu usage in a two-processor machine:
> 
>   893 user1   39  19  7212 5892  492 R 99.7  1.1   3694:29 mi41
>  1118 user2   25   0  155m  61m  624 R 50.0 12.3 857:54.18 b170-se.x
>  1186 user3   25   0  155m  62m  640 R 50.2 12.3 103:25.22 b170-se.x
> 
> The job with nice 19 seems to be using 100% of cpu time while the
> other two nice 0 jobs share a single processor with 50% only. This is
> persistent, not a transient. I did a kill -STOP to the nice 19 job and
> a kill -CONT, and for a while it decreased the cpu usage but later
> returned to the above.
> 
> This is with kernel 2.6.11-5 and top 3.2.5. What's the reason for this
> (apparent??) mis-behavior and how can I correct it? This is important
> because the machine is used for number-crunching and users get really
> upset when they don't get the expected share of cpu time...
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-04 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-03 14:24 problem with nice values and cpu consumption in 2.6.11-5 Carlos Carvalho
2005-05-04 11:52 ` Kirill Korotaev [this message]
2005-05-04 12:12 ` Con Kolivas

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