Re: 2.6.8.1-ck4

["Prakash K. Cheemplavam" <prakashkc@gmx.de>]

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Con Kolivas wrote:
| Prakash K. Cheemplavam writes:
| Does it happen without nfs or not? Does it happen with only the
| staircase patch or not?

I don't think in my case it is nfs related. I have compiled it in and
nfsd is running, but in my test everything was done locally. I haven't
tested the latter, yet. (But will do later.)

|> light@tachyon ~ $ top -b -n 1
|> top - 11:22:41 up 4 min,  4 users,  load average: 2.03, 1.20, 0.51
|> Tasks:  94 total,   4 running,  90 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
|> Cpu(s):  7.4% us, 17.3% sy, 25.2% ni, 25.8% id, 23.6% wa,  0.1% hi,
|> 0.6% si
|> Mem:   1034224k total,   646380k used,   387844k free,    39220k buffers
|> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   467460k cached
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| You're not hitting swap.

I am not using one. ;-)

| In fact nothing is chewing up a lot of cpu time; you're just waiting
on i/o
|
|> Cpu(s):  7.4% us, 17.3% sy, 25.2% ni, 25.8% id, 23.6% wa,  0.1%
|
| hi,  0.6% si
|
| You even have 25% idle time so you have cpu to spare. Doesn't sound like
| a scheduling issue but something getting stuck during I/O.
| Something else is at play here. I need more information about the
| questions above.

Could it be cfq then? I will reboot an try with as...

Prakash
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