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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:24:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4315A179.8070102@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508311029170.16574@diagnostix.dwd.de>

Holger Kiehl wrote:

> 3236497 total                                      1.4547
> 2507913 default_idle                             52248.1875
> 158752 shrink_zone                               43.3275
> 121584 copy_user_generic_c                      3199.5789
>  34271 __wake_up_bit                            713.9792
>  31131 __make_request                            23.1629
>  22096 scsi_request_fn                           18.4133
>  21915 rotate_reclaimable_page                   80.5699
            ^^^^^^^^^

I don't think this function should be here. This indicates that
lots of writeout is happening due to pages falling off the end
of the LRU.

There was a bug recently causing memory estimates to be wrong
on Opterons that could cause this I think.

Can you send in 2 dumps of /proc/vmstat taken 10 seconds apart
while you're writing at full speed (with 2.6.13 or the latest
-git tree).

A dump of /proc/zoneinfo and /proc/meminfo while the write is
going on would be helpful too.

Thanks,
Nick

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-29 18:20 Where is the performance bottleneck? Holger Kiehl
2005-08-29 19:54 ` Mark Hahn
2005-08-30 19:08   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-30 23:05     ` Guy
2005-09-28 20:04       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-30  4:52         ` Guy
2005-09-30  5:19           ` dean gaudet
2005-10-06 21:15           ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-29 20:10 ` Al Boldi
2005-08-30 19:18   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 10:30     ` Al Boldi
2005-08-29 23:09 ` Peter Chubb
     [not found] ` <20050829202529.GA32214@midnight.suse.cz>
2005-08-30 20:06   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31  7:11     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-31  7:26       ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 11:54         ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 12:07           ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 13:55             ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 14:24               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-08-31 20:56                 ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 21:16                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2005-08-31 16:20               ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 15:16                 ` jmerkey
2005-08-31 16:58                   ` Tom Callahan
2005-08-31 15:47                     ` jmerkey
2005-08-31 17:11                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 15:59                     ` jmerkey
2005-08-31 17:32                       ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 16:51                 ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 17:35                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-31 19:00                     ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 18:06                   ` Michael Tokarev
2005-08-31 18:52                     ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-31 18:57                       ` Ming Zhang
2005-08-31 12:24           ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-08-31 16:25             ` Holger Kiehl
2005-08-31 17:25               ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-31 21:57                 ` Holger Kiehl
2005-09-01  9:12                   ` Holger Kiehl
2005-09-02 14:28                     ` Al Boldi
2005-08-31 13:38       ` Holger Kiehl

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