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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: mikhail <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: freezing system for several second on high I/O [kernel 4.15]
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:52:45 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180214215245.GI7000@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518643669.6070.21.camel@gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 02:27:49AM +0500, mikhail wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 09:56 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > IOWs, this is not an XFS problem. It's exactly what I'd expect
> > to see when you try to run a very IO intensive workload on a
> > cheap SATA drive that can't keep up with what is being asked of
> > it....
> > 
> 
> I am understand that XFS is not culprit here. But I am worried
> about of interface freezing and various kernel messages with
> traces which leads to XFS. This is my only clue, and I do not know
> where to dig yet.

I've already told you the problem: sustained storage subsystem
overload. You can't "tune" you way around that. i.e. You need a
faster disk subsystem to maintian the load you are putting on your
system - either add more disks (e.g. RAID 0/5/6) or to move to SSDs.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-14 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-30 18:40 freezing system for several second on high I/O [kernel 4.15] mikhail
2018-01-31  2:22 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-05  3:25   ` mikhail
2018-02-06  3:47   ` mikhail
2018-02-06  6:08     ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-06  7:12       ` Mikhail Gavrilov
2018-02-07  3:40         ` mikhail
2018-02-07  6:55           ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-10  9:34             ` mikhail
2018-02-10  9:35               ` mikhail
2018-02-11 22:56                 ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-14 21:27                   ` mikhail
2018-02-14 21:52                     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2018-02-15  3:40                       ` mikhail
2018-02-15  3:42                       ` mikhail
2018-02-15  3:46                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-15  5:44                         ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-15 19:02                           ` Mikhail Gavrilov
2018-02-15 21:48                             ` Dave Chinner
2018-02-18 14:02                               ` Mikhail Gavrilov
2018-02-19  5:02                                 ` Dave Chinner

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