Re: Errors in the VM - detailed

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Sat, Feb 02 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 02 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > > Jens said earlier "Roy, please try and change
> > > > the queue_nr_requests assignment in ll_rw_blk:blk_dev_init() to
> > > > something like 2048." - Roy have you tested this too?
> > >
> > > No ... Where do I change it?
> >
> > drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c:blk_dev_init()
> > {
> > 	queue_nr_requests = 64;
> > 	if (total_ram > MB(32))
> > 		queue_nr_requests = 256;
> >
> > Change the 256 to 2048.
> 
> Is this an attempt to fix the problem #2 (as described in the initial
> email), or to further improve throughtput?

Further "improvement", the question is will it make a difference.
Bumping READA count would interesting too, as outlined.

> Problem #2 is _the_ worst problem, as it makes the server more-or-less
> unusable

Please send sysrq-t traces for such stuck processes. It's _impossible_
to guess whats going on from here, the crystal ball just isn't good
enough :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe