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From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: andrew <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing with 4000 disks
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:16:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030407081618.GB2473@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304041355.05296.pbadari@us.ibm.com>

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:55:05PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Okay !! I just made all my filesystem except root ext2.
> (I couldn't boot when I configed out ext3 - mounting
> root failed).
> 
> Anyway, problem seem to have gone away..
> Machine is really slow while trying to do IO on
> all 4000 filesystems. It is slowly creating processes.
> System is 100% busy. (so far, it created 461 processes 
> out of 4000). But we are not running out of lowmem and 
> inode caches seems to be reasonable..
> 
> So, it must be some leak in ext3..
> 

Or bad things happening because you have hundreds of processes all
updating the same physical journal...

You mounted rw, and reading a file causes a write due to atime updates.

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-07  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04 18:24 Testing with 4000 disks Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-04 18:59 ` Dave Hansen
2003-04-04 19:25   ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-04 21:55   ` Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-07  8:16     ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]

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