Re: PROBLEM: Page allocation failure

Re: PROBLEM: Page allocation failure

[Nathan Scott]

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