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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Ozan Çağlayan" <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A lot of [ext4-dio-unwrit] threads around
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:05:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110207180524.GD3457@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D502746.4030500@pardus.org.tr>

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:09:26PM +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> 
> This is 2.6.35.11 on a 24-core HP Proliant server with 8 mounted
> ext4 filesystems. There are 7 LXC containers which does heavy
> compiling workload during the day.
> 
> Uptime is 3 days and currently there are 216 ext4-dio-unwrit threads
> in ps aux output? Is it normal or a symptom of a problem?

It's normal; the workqueues are created statically at mount time, one
per cpu per file system.  There are some plans in train for a more
efficient way of dealing with workqueues in general on systems with
large numbers of CPU's, but for 2.6.35, yes, that's normal.

      	      	 	    		- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-07 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-07 17:09 A lot of [ext4-dio-unwrit] threads around Ozan Çağlayan
2011-02-07 18:05 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]

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