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From: Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: network/performance problem
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:32:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040311173229.GA12325@mtholyoke.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040311152728.GA11472@mtholyoke.edu>

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:27:28AM -0500, rpeterso wrote:

> I've been perusing fa.linux.kernel, and saw Brad Laue's thread.  FWIW,
> it smells similar.  When my machines finally go down, ksoftirqd is
> always at the top of the process list.
> 
> Any ideas at all about what might be happening?

I put my latest user.log file up (16M):

http://depot.mtholyoke.edu:8080/tmp/sam-profile/user.log

If you 'grep PSTOPCPU user.log | less', you can see that ksoftirqd_CPU0
slowly but steadily consumes a higher and higher CPU percentage.  What
this means, I have no idea.

-- 
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11 15:27 network/performance problem Ron Peterson
2004-03-11 17:32 ` Ron Peterson [this message]
2004-03-11 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-11 23:35   ` Ron Peterson
2004-03-12 10:11     ` Patrick McHardy
2004-03-12 16:10       ` Martin Josefsson
2004-03-12 16:47     ` Ron Peterson
2004-03-12 17:23       ` Ron Peterson
2004-03-12 22:56       ` Ron Peterson
2004-03-14  6:33         ` David S. Miller
2004-03-14 13:23           ` Ron Peterson
2004-03-14 17:33             ` David S. Miller
2004-03-14 18:13               ` Ron Peterson

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