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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Matthias Dahl <mlkernel@mortal-soul.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sluggish system responsiveness under higher IO load
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:28:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060810122853.GS11829@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060808190241.GB11829@suse.de>

On Tue, Aug 08 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08 2006, Matthias Dahl wrote:
> > > Can you see if this makes any difference whatsoever?
> > 
> > Sorry but no change for the better with this patch.
> > 
> > Are there any more informations I can provide to help?
> 
> Ok, it was worth a shot. I got another report that the patch fixes this
> behaviour, so maybe we are dealing with two seperate issues. It would be
> nice if you could gather vmstat 1 info during a problematic period.
> blktrace info could also be very useful:
> 
> http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/blktrace-git-20060807122505.tar.gz

Some more things to try/questions:

- Did 2.6.16 work well for you?

- Does disabling preemtion (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y) help?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-06 10:00 sluggish system responsiveness under higher IO load Matthias Dahl
2006-08-06 10:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-06 13:54   ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-06 19:37     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-08 15:47       ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-07 13:48     ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-08 15:56       ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-08 17:44       ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-08 19:02         ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-10 12:28           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-08-11 11:40             ` Matthias Dahl
2006-08-13 16:15             ` Matthias Dahl
2006-10-06 15:58               ` Paolo Ornati
2006-10-08 14:28                 ` Christian
2006-10-08 17:05                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-08 23:50                     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-09  5:58                       ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-14 14:39                 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-10-14 14:57                   ` Paolo Ornati
2006-10-14 18:20                   ` Mike Galbraith
2006-09-03 11:15             ` Matthias Dahl
2006-09-15 18:17               ` Jens Axboe
2006-09-24 14:32                 ` Matthias Dahl
2006-09-24 20:27                   ` Mike Galbraith

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