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From: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: sched: RT throttling activated, 3.12.3
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:59:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A7D512.5050801@symas.com> (raw)

I just upgraded a system from a 3.5 kernel to 3.12.3 and attempted to run some 
new benchmarks on it. I see my test program ramps up in CPU usage for a few 
seconds and then it gradually tails off. There's nothing obvious in the user 
code to trigger this behavior, so I check dmesg, and see this:

[   55.037057] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
[163591.807470] perf samples too long (2758 > 2500), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
[164061.362762] perf samples too long (5204 > 5000), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 25000
[167969.339513] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated
[182741.484637] perf samples too long (294588 > 10000), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 12500
[182741.484726] INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to 
run: 36.665 msecs
[182822.633084] perf samples too long (292359 > 20000), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 6250
[182905.606119] perf samples too long (290291 > 40000), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 3250
[199384.293514] perf samples too long (288142 > 76923), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 1750
[208507.301027] perf samples too long (285964 > 142857), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 1000
[208528.976208] perf samples too long (283799 > 250000), lowering 
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 500

Why is the kernel throttling my server?

-- 
   -- Howard Chu
   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/

             reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11  2:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-11  2:59 Howard Chu [this message]
2013-12-11  3:03 ` sched: RT throttling activated, 3.12.3 Li Zefan
2013-12-11  3:09   ` Howard Chu
2013-12-11  4:57     ` Howard Chu
2013-12-11  6:06       ` Howard Chu

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