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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Karl Vogel <karl.vogel@seagha.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - CFQ scheduler=culprit
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:00:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040823170044.GB24089@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6DED3619289CD311BCEB00508B8E133601A68B13@nt-server2.antwerp.seagha.com>

On Mon, Aug 23 2004, Karl Vogel wrote:
> > > Jens, is this huge amount of bio/biovec's allocations 
> > expected with CFQ? Its really really bad.
> > 
> > Nope, it's not by design :-)
> > 
> > A test case would be nice, then I'll fix it as soon as possible. But
> > please retest with 2.6.8.1 marcelo, 2.6.8-rc4 is missing an important
> > fix to ll_rw_blk that can easily cause this. The first report is for
> > 2.6.8.1, so I'm more puzzled on that.
> 
> I tried with 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.8.1-mm4, both had the problem. If there 
> is anything extra I need to try/record, just shoot!
> 
> Original post with testcase + stats:
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/228156

Good report, I'll reproduce it here tomorrow. Thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-23 16:10 Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - CFQ scheduler=culprit Karl Vogel
2004-08-23 17:00 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-08-24 10:03 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-24  9:18   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-24 10:52     ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-24 10:13   ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-24 10:35 Karl Vogel
2004-08-24 10:28 Karl Vogel
2004-08-24 10:29 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-22 13:27 Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death Karl Vogel
2004-08-22 18:49 ` Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - 2.6.8.1-mm4 also karl.vogel
2004-08-22 19:18   ` Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - CFQ scheduler=culprit Karl Vogel
2004-08-23 14:12     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-23 15:41       ` Jens Axboe

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