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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com, jakob@unthought.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help understanding slow down
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:43:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040523194352.4468da09.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040524015153.32010.qmail@web90003.mail.scd.yahoo.com>

Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, so ran the test with vmstat running.  I ran it
>  capturing every 1 sec.  Here is an excert:

That was horridly wordwrapped.

procs                      memory      swap         io     system         cpu
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi   bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  0      0 8153848  17000  82348    0    0     0    0 4568  4028  6 16 78  0
 0  1      0 8154168  17008  82340    0    0     0  160 4596  4079  7 17 76  1
 1  0      0 8153848  17008  82340    0    0     0    0 4511  3998  7 16 76  0
 1  0      0 8153912  17008  82340    0    0     0    0 4460  3952  7 14 79  0
 1  0      0 8153784  17016  82332    0    0     0    0 4437  3962  7 16 77  0
 1  0      0 8153528  17016  82332    0    0     0    0 4444  3927  7 14 78  0
 1  1      0 8153784  17024  82392    0    0     0  144 4399  3895  7 15 77  1
 0  0      0 8153592  17024  82392    0    0     0    0 4367  3821  7 15 78  0
 1  0      0 8153848  17024  82392    0    0     0    0 4393  3926  6 16 78  0
 1  0      0 8153528  17024  82460    0    0     0    0 4438  3960  8 14 78  0
 1  0      0 8154040  17024  82460    0    0     0    0 4415  3912  6 15 78  0
 1  1      0 8153720  17032  82452    0    0     0  140 4457  3953  7 15 77  1
 1  0      0 8153784  17032  82452    0    0     0    0 4437  3889  7 14 79  0
 0  0      0 8153784  17040  82444    0    0     0    0 4398  3903  8 15 77  0
 1  0      0 8153464  17040  82444    0    0     0    0 4398  3902  7 14 79  0
 0  0      0 8153528  17040  82444    0    0     0    0 4447  3922  6 17 77  0
 0  1      0 8153720  17052  82432    0    0     0  144 4490  3960  6 16 77  1
 0  0      0 8153656  17056  82428    0    0     0    0 4449  3954  7 15 78  0

This is a single-CPU machine, yes?

Your application is spending most of the time in an explicit sleep of some
form.  Suggest you run strace against it and see what it's up to.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-24  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-24  0:32 Help understanding slow down Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  0:57 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  1:04   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  1:25     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24  1:28       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  1:51         ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  2:42           ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  2:43           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-24  6:23             ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  6:27               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-24  6:39                 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:21                   ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:44                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  7:50                       ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  7:59                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24 10:43                           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-05-24 14:13                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-05-24  7:53                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24  8:00                     ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-25 10:32                     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25  9:29                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 11:42                         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-25  9:58                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-25 12:25                             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24  6:33   ` Paul Rolland
2004-05-24 17:28     ` Roger Luethi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-24  1:37 Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24  1:50 ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  3:31 ` Robert M. Stockmann
2004-05-24  6:14   ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24 18:36     ` Robert M. Stockmann

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