Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-29T16:36:02Z

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:06:04PM +0200, Willy TARREAU wrote:
> I also confirm it does ; it takes 122 seconds to write this file in -rc6, and
> 142 seconds in -aa. But I don't think that desktop people would notice anyway.

btw, were you running parallel reads or writes at the same time? (i.e.
launching xterms or ps etc.. in parallel?) I ask because if xterm
startups quick is because the write workload is getting more seeks in
its way.

I'd be very interested if you can measure a bonnie performance change in
contigous reads and writes on a otherwise completely idle machine, the
size of the queue has to be big enough to keep the I/O pipeline full
during contigous writes at full speed. saying that throughput decrease
alone is not enough to evaluate the reason of this drop.

you can also try with:

echo 20 500 0 0 500 3000 30 10 >/proc/sys/vm/bdflush

just in case.

Andrea