From: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 11:55:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A7DB3AD.8A2E996E@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14PMvB-0001Mq-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
> But try 2.4.1 before worrying too much. That fixed a lot of the block
> performance problems I was seeing (2.4.1 ruins the VM performance under paging
> loads but the I/O speed is fixed ;))
---
Seems to have gotten a bit worse. Vmstat output after 'vmware' had completed
write -- but system unresponsive and writing out a 155M file...
1 0 0 0 113960 47528 277152 0 0 0 0 397 861 1 24 75
1 0 0 0 114060 47560 277152 0 0 4 350 432 1435 4 17 79
0 0 1 0 127380 47560 266196 0 0 0 516 216 435 7 3 90
1 0 1 0 127380 47560 266196 0 0 0 240 203 173 0 1 99
0 0 1 0 127380 47560 266196 0 0 0 434 275 180 0 2 98
1 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 218 204 173 0 2 98
0 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 288 203 174 0 0 100
0 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 337 230 176 0 1 99
0 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 267 241 177 0 1 99
0 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 210 204 173 0 1 99
0 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 204 203 173 0 1 99
0 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 216 212 250 0 1 99
0 0 1 0 127376 47560 266196 0 0 0 208 205 172 0 2 98
0 0 1 0 127372 47560 266196 0 0 0 225 203 160 0 2 98
0 0 1 0 127372 47560 266196 0 0 0 316 214 212 0 1 99
1 0 1 0 127144 47560 266196 0 0 0 281 218 304 1 2 96
0 0 0 0 127144 47560 266196 0 0 0 1 161 240 1 0 99
0 0 0 0 127144 47560 266196 0 0 0 0 101 232 0 1 99
---
What is the meaning of having a process in the 'w' column? On other
systems, I was used to that meaning an executable had been *swapped* out completely
(as opposed to no pages mapped in) and that it meant your system vm was 'thrashing'.
But that obviously isn't the case here.
Those columns are output from a 'vmstat 5'. Meaning it took about 70 seconds
to write out 158M. Or about 2.2M/s. That's probably not bad. It still locks
up the system for over a minute though -- which is really undesirable performance
for interactive use. I'm guessing the vmstat output numbers are showing 4K? 8K?
blocks? 8K would about make sense for the 2.2M average.
--
Linda A Walsh | Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI
law@sgi.com | Voice: (650) 933-5338
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-04 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-02 19:57 System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD Delta
2001-02-02 20:13 ` Doug McNaught
2001-02-02 20:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-03 20:07 ` LA Walsh
2001-02-04 11:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-04 19:55 ` LA Walsh [this message]
2001-02-05 1:07 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-05 16:23 ` [PATCH] " Rik van Riel
2001-02-05 16:15 ` Rik van Riel
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