From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Error reading multiple large files
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:59:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109145952.D19814@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201071413250.5017-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201091454060.6953-100000@mustard.heime.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201091454060.6953-100000@mustard.heime.net>
On Wed, Jan 09 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > you really should try akpm's "[patch, CFT] improved disk read latency"
> > patch. it sounds almost perfect for your application.
>
> hi
>
> It seemed like it helped first, but after a while, some 99 processes went
> Defunct, and locked. After this, the total 'bi' as reported from vmstat
> went down to ~ 900kB per sec
Bad news for Andrew's patch, however I really don't think it would have
helped you much in the first place. The problem seems to be down to
loosing read-ahead when cache ends up eating all of available memory,
I've seen this effect myself too. Maybe the vm needs to be more
aggressive about tossing out pages when this happens, I'm quite sure
that would help tremendously for this workload.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201071413250.5017-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-01-09 13:56 ` [BUG] Error reading multiple large files Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-09 13:59 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-01-09 14:03 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-09 15:44 ` [BUG] Error reading multiple large files (analyzing... ?) Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-09 14:03 ` [BUG] Error reading multiple large files Rik van Riel
2002-01-09 14:05 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-09 18:02 ` [BUG] Error reading multiple large files :-) Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-09 14:25 ` [BUG] Error reading multiple large files MrChuoi
2002-01-07 18:45 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-07 23:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-01-09 10:44 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-01-10 15:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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