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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
	Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help understanding slow down
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:28:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040524012828.GK1833@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040524012553.GG30687@unthought.net>

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:25:53AM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> Eh, not if I read the numbers right:
> 2.6.7-p1: 24.86user 51.77system 2:58.87elapsed 42%CPU
> 24.86 + 51.77 = 76.63 seconds on CPU, 102.24 seconds of waiting
> 2.4.21: 28.68user 34.98system 1:12.34elapsed 87%CPU
> 28.68 + 34.98 = 63.66 seconds on CPU, 8.68 seconds of waiting
> So, 2.6.7-p1 spends 16.79 seconds more in the kernel as you observed,
> but it spends 93.56 seconds more waiting for I/O (or whatever).
> Unless I'm totally missing something, the wait seems to be the
> regression.

I'm sorry, you're right. Let's start by looking into IO activity.
Phy, could you log the output of vmstat(1) during the runs?


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-24  1:28 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 [this message]
2004-05-24  1:51         ` Phy Prabab
2004-05-24  2:42           ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-24  2:43           ` Andrew Morton
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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