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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Miles Lane <miles@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Rui Sousa <rsousa@grad.physics.sunysb.edu>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject: Re: Blocked processes <=> Elevator starvation?
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:04:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001103110404.I521@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001027134603.A513@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010280408520.1157-100000@localhost.localdomain> <20001027202710.A825@suse.de> <39FC78BF.90607@speakeasy.org> <20001029144543.D615@suse.de> <39FE16A3.5070608@speakeasy.org>
In-Reply-To: <39FE16A3.5070608@speakeasy.org>; from miles@speakeasy.org on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 04:47:31PM -0800

On Mon, Oct 30 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
> I just reproduced the problem in test10-pre7.  Here's the
> output you requested:

Thanks

> vmstat 1
>     procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
>   r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
>   1  1  2      0  43736  77680  59548   0   0     0  1279  908  2637   1   8  91
>   0  2  3      0  43072  78040  59592   0   0     0  1660 1281  4119   5   6  89
> 
>  >>> /var/log/kernel output stopped being emitted here <<<
>  >>>  CRUNCH!  <<<
> 
>   0  2  3      0  42656  78384  59592   0   0     0   259  271   551   0   0 100
>   0  2  3      0  42656  78384  59592   0   0     0     5  271   499   0   0 100

Yes, I would assume this would be the case. The current vm does not
behave very well once the cache has been filled up. I'm not knocking
the new vm, this has been a problem for some time. Basically I/O
performance goes badly down the drain at this point.

-- 
* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-03 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010080105520.22898-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
2000-10-27 16:22 ` Blocked processes <=> Elevator starvation? Rui Sousa
2000-10-27 16:31   ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-27 20:46   ` Jens Axboe
2000-10-28  3:14     ` Rui Sousa
2000-10-28  3:27       ` Jens Axboe
2000-10-29 19:21         ` Miles Lane
2000-10-29 22:45           ` Jens Axboe
2000-10-29 22:20             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-10-31  0:47             ` Miles Lane
2000-11-03 19:04               ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2000-11-06  1:03               ` Giuliano Pochini

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