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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Poor performance on cp on kernel 2.6.27.7-9-xen (openSUSE 11.1)
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:38:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498A430E.1040809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902050208.50490@zmi.at>

Michael Monnerie wrote:
> And one last thing:
> rsync -aPv /disk1/bigfile /disk2/xxx
> That copies at max. 50MB/s, because 2 rsync tasks are started each 
> taking 50% of 1 CPU - why doesn't the kernel switch the 2nd task to 
> another CPU? There are 8 cpus in that system - 7 of them idle.

Usually in such cases it's because the tasks are piping data to each 
other in such a way that they can't both run at the same time. In this 
situation there is no point in moving one to another CPU because they're 
not executing concurrently anyway.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05  1:08 Poor performance on cp on kernel 2.6.27.7-9-xen (openSUSE 11.1) Michael Monnerie
2009-02-05  1:38 ` Robert Hancock [this message]

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