From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267345AbUHXJzP (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:55:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267365AbUHXJzP (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:55:15 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:24465 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267345AbUHXJzH (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:55:07 -0400 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <412B1073.2020203@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:54:59 +0200 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040815) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: ck kernel mailing list , Joshua Schmidlkofer , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-ck4 References: <412880BF.6050503@kolivas.org> <412A2398.8050702@asylumwear.com> <412A271F.3040802@gmx.de> <412A663D.2050104@kolivas.org> <412B0A4F.2080603@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 | | | 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBKxBzxU2n/+9+t5gRAtgXAJ9XB3LAsF9y/ZhTMBK59zyEjW/xewCfSSWv Wn0IlxxRuuffjOtC1GUNuYU= =CZSQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----