From: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: finish_task_switch high in profiles in 2.6.7
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:15:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040624091548.GA8264@outblaze.com> (raw)
Hi, I have a fairly busy mailserver which also has a simple iptables
ruleset (blocking some IP's) running 2.6.7 with the deadline i/o
scheduler. vmstat was reporting that system time was around 80%. I did
the following
readprofile -r ; sleep 240 ; readprofile -n -m /boot/System.map-`uname
-r` | sort -rn -k 1,1 | head -22
48036 total 0.2274
9684 finish_task_switch 80.0331
6992 default_idle 158.9091
6335 __wake_up 87.9861
5671 remove_wait_queue 76.6351
4150 add_wait_queue 59.2857
2459 sysenter_past_esp 21.7611
1304 find_get_page 21.0323
1160 __mod_timer 4.1281
938 do_gettimeofday 5.0430
756 del_timer_sync 2.4787
753 del_timer 7.1714
599 handle_IRQ_event 5.9900
570 do_page_fault 0.4612
485 __do_softirq 2.8529
476 do_sigaction 0.9136
469 do_getitimer 1.7055
464 do_setitimer 0.9768
392 get_offset_tsc 17.0435
340 current_kernel_time 4.9275
293 in_group_p 2.4417
272 eligible_child 1.4093
On a 2.6.5 box with a similar workload, the profile is as follows
131202 total 0.3704
42080 fget 667.9365
12868 schedule 8.1084
11231 default_idle 255.2500
9157 fput 436.0476
6642 remove_wait_queue 89.7568
6076 __wake_up 93.4769
5056 page_remove_rmap 13.4111
4144 add_wait_queue 59.2000
2255 fget_light 17.4806
2176 sysenter_past_esp 19.2566
1271 kfree 11.6606
1148 kmem_cache_alloc 14.9091
934 __kmalloc 6.6714
890 __mod_timer 3.1673
768 del_timer_sync 2.9538
717 buffered_rmqueue 1.5621
715 kmem_cache_free 8.2184
613 free_hot_cold_page 2.4618
612 del_timer 5.8286
588 __find_get_block 3.0466
588 do_page_fault 0.4757
I am trying to determine where the system time is going and don't have
much zen to begin with. Any assistance would be appreciated ?
next reply other threads:[~2004-06-24 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-24 9:15 Yusuf Goolamabbas [this message]
2004-06-24 9:27 ` finish_task_switch high in profiles in 2.6.7 Nick Piggin
2004-06-24 9:34 ` Yusuf Goolamabbas
2004-06-24 9:45 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-24 10:05 ` Yusuf Goolamabbas
2004-06-24 10:10 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-24 14:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 15:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
[not found] <2ayz2-1Um-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-24 10:25 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-24 10:44 ` Yusuf Goolamabbas
2004-06-24 11:36 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-24 14:05 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 21:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-24 21:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-25 6:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
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