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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: slow performance on disk/network i/o full speed after drop_caches
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:33:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110824093336.GB5214@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E54BDCF.9020504@profihost.ag>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 05:01:03PM +0800, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> 
> >> sync&&  echo 3>/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches&&  sleep 2&&  echo 0
> >>> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> 
> Another way to get it working again is to stop some processes. Could be 
> mysql or apache or php fcgi doesn't matter. Just free some memory. 
> Although there are already 5GB free.

Is it a NUMA machine and _every_ node has enough free pages?

        grep . /sys/devices/system/node/node*/vmstat

Thanks,
Fengguang

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4E5494D4.1050605@profihost.ag>
2011-08-24  6:20 ` slow performance on disk/network i/o full speed after drop_caches Pekka Enberg
2011-08-24  9:01   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-08-24  9:33     ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-08-25  9:00       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-08-26  2:16         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26  2:54           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-08-26  3:03             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26  3:13               ` Stefan Priebe
2011-08-26  3:26                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26  3:30                   ` Zhu Yanhai
2011-08-26  6:18                     ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-08-31  7:11                       ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-01  4:14                         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-01  5:41                           ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-01 12:57                           ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-24  9:32   ` Wu Fengguang

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