From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: spamtrap@knobisoft.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:25:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D59DE2.2070405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <713252.42570.qm@web32614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On 08/28/2007 11:53 AM, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
>
> The basic setup is a dual x86_64 box with 8 GB of memory. The DL380
> has a HW RAID5, made from 4x72GB disks and about 100 MB write cache.
> The performance of the block device with O_DIRECT is about 90 MB/sec.
>
> The problematic behaviour comes when we are moving large files through
> the system. The file usage in this case is mostly "use once" or
> streaming. As soon as the amount of file data is larger than 7.5 GB, we
> see occasional unresponsiveness of the system (e.g. no more ssh
> connections into the box) of more than 1 or 2 minutes (!) duration
> (kernels up to 2.6.19). Load goes up, mainly due to pdflush threads and
> some other poor guys being in "D" state.
Try booting with "mem=4096M", "mem=2048M", ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-28 15:53 Understanding I/O behaviour - next try Martin Knoblauch
[not found] ` <20070829013858.GA7721@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-29 1:38 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-29 8:15 ` Martin Knoblauch
[not found] ` <20070829084039.GA32016@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-29 8:40 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-29 9:22 ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-09-13 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-29 9:48 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-29 14:26 ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-08-30 10:50 ` Martin Knoblauch
2007-08-29 16:25 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-08-29 21:43 ` Martin Knoblauch
[not found] <fa.tV0SjP5wHRgCEzqJw2C8w4+Fh90@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.NN9klzYbZhoZ+YoOWgrMeLtzlHE@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-29 14:27 ` Robert Hancock
2007-08-30 10:26 ` Martin Knoblauch
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