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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] page size > 16KB
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:43:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709806112@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709806057@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:17:42 -0800, grundler@cup.hp.com (Grant Grundler) said:

  Grant> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:33:12PM +0100, Jan Schreckenbach
  Grant> wrote:
  >> 2110715 cpu_idle 5996.3494 12975 sock_poll 81.0938

  Grant> As someone earlier mentioned, cpu_idle should be zero (or
  Grant> near zero).  I suspect you are IO bound - check mfg specs on
  Grant> IO cards and IO devices you are using. Then see what IO rate
  Grant> they are actually delivering (perhaps vmstat output is good
  Grant> enough).

And if it's disk I/O limited, you may want to try the 2.5 kernel,
since there have been a lot of scalability improves in the disk
subsystem.

	--david


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-14 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-12 16:38 [Linux-ia64] page size > 16KB Jan Schreckenbach
2003-03-12 16:55 ` Grant Grundler
2003-03-12 17:07 ` n0ano
2003-03-12 17:40 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-12 17:46 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-12 17:49 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-03-12 18:07 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-12 18:08 ` Grant Grundler
2003-03-12 18:24 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-03-12 19:51 ` Mario Smarduch
2003-03-13 18:05 ` David Mosberger
2003-03-13 20:44 ` Mario Smarduch
2003-03-14 12:33 ` Jan Schreckenbach
2003-03-14 15:51 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2003-03-14 17:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-03-14 18:00 ` Mario Smarduch
2003-03-14 18:17 ` Grant Grundler
2003-03-14 19:00 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-03-14 19:43 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-03-15  3:08 ` Seth, Rohit

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