From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Aaron Kulbe <akulbe@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com,
linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, hch@xfs.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Page allocation failure
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:02:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051220040226.GE1355@frodo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a10e1350512191355t5c0abe18k4269e0ebbabc147e@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:55:56PM -0600, Aaron Kulbe wrote:
> [1.] SUMMARY: During rsync and heavy I/O operations, we experienced
> abnormally slow response times on the file server.
> ...
> [4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version): Linux version 2.6.8-24.14-bigsmp (
Try a recent kernel, both XFS and the VM have moved on in leaps
and bounds since 2.6.8 timeframe.
> I tried Christoph Hellwig's suggestion from
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=345 of increasing the value of
> /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes. I set the value to 1024. The results were
> the same. No change in performance, and errors persisted.
There were older kernel versions where that parameter was not
being honoured particularly well, I can't recall anymore if it
was 2.6.8 or not though - it may well have been.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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