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From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
To: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:19:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050406231906.GA4473@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050406160123.GH347@unthought.net>

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 06:01:23PM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> 
> Problem; during simple tests such as a 'cp largefile0 largefile1' on the
> client (under the mountpoint from the NFS server), the client becomes
> extremely laggy, NFS writes are slow, and I see very high CPU
> utilization by bdflush and rpciod.
> 
> For example, writing a single 8G file with dd will give me about
> 20MB/sec (I get 60+ MB/sec locally on the server), and the client rarely
> drops below 40% system CPU utilization.

How large is the client's RAM?  What does the following command report
before and during the write?

egrep 'nfs_page|nfs_write_data' /proc/slabinfo

Greg.
-- 
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-06 16:01 bdflush/rpciod high CPU utilization, profile does not make sense Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-06 21:28 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-07 15:28   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-06 23:19 ` Greg Banks [this message]
2005-04-07 15:38   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-07 16:01     ` Greg Banks
2005-04-07 16:17     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-09 21:35       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-09 21:52         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-11  7:48           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-11 12:35             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-11 13:47               ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-11 14:35                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-11 14:41                   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-11 15:21                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-11 15:42                       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-12  1:03                         ` Greg Banks
2005-04-12  9:28                           ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-19 19:45                             ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-19 22:46                               ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-20 13:57                                 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-24  7:15                                   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-04-25  3:09                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-25 13:50                                       ` Jakob Oestergaard

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