Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-06-16 Thread Masachika ISHIZUKA
I have still vnodes problem in 4.8-stable with /sys/kern/vfs_subr.c 1.249.2.30. Ishizuka-san, could you possibly try the following command line repeatedly while slowdown is being observed? % vmstat -m | grep '^ *vfscache' If the third number of its output is approaching or

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-06-09 Thread Masachika ISHIZUKA
I have still vnodes problem in 4.8-stable with /sys/kern/vfs_subr.c 1.249.2.30. (1) #1 machine (Celeron 466 with 256 mega byte rams) % sysctl kern.maxvnodes kern.maxvnodes: 17979 % sysctl vm.zone | grep VNODE VNODE: 192,0, 18004,122,18004 This

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-06-09 Thread David Schultz
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003, Masachika ISHIZUKA wrote: I have still vnodes problem in 4.8-stable with /sys/kern/vfs_subr.c 1.249.2.30. (1) #1 machine (Celeron 466 with 256 mega byte rams) % sysctl kern.maxvnodes kern.maxvnodes: 17979 % sysctl vm.zone | grep VNODE VNODE:

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-06-09 Thread Masachika ISHIZUKA
I have still vnodes problem in 4.8-stable with /sys/kern/vfs_subr.c 1.249.2.30. % sysctl kern.maxvnodes kern.maxvnodes: 17979 % sysctl vm.zone | grep VNODE VNODE: 192,0, 18004,122,18004 This looks pretty normal to me for a quiescent system. I

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 25 May 2003, Mike Harding wrote: I'm running a very recent RELENG-4 - but I had a suspicion that this was unionfs related, so I unmounted the /usr/ports union mounts under a jail in case this was causing the problem, and haven't seen the problem since. It's possible I accidently

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Mike Harding wrote: Er - are any changes made to RELENG_4_8 that aren't made to RELENG_4? I thought it was the other way around - that 4_8 only got _some_ of the changes to RELENG_4... Ack, my fault ... sorry, wasn't thinking :( RELENG_4 is correct ... I should have

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Ack, only 512Meg of memory? :( k, now you are beyond me on this one ... I'm running 4Gig on our server, with 2Gig allocated to kernel memory ... only thing I can suggest is try slowly incrementing up your maxvnodes and see if that helps, but, I'm not sure where your upper threshhold is with

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'm a little confused. What state is the vnlru kernel thread in? It sounds like vnlru must be stuck. Note that you can gdb the live kernel and get a stack backtrace of any stuck process. gdb -k /kernel.debug /dev/mem (or whatever) proc N

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Harding
I'll try this if I can tickle the bug again. I may have just run out of freevnodes - I only have about 1-2000 free right now. I was just surprised because I have never seen a reference to tuning this sysctl. - Mike H. On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:09, Matthew Dillon wrote: I'm a little

Re: system slowdown - vnode related

2003-05-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'll try this if I can tickle the bug again. : :I may have just run out of freevnodes - I only have about 1-2000 free :right now. I was just surprised because I have never seen a reference :to tuning this sysctl. : :- Mike H. The vnode subsystem is *VERY* sensitive to running out of KVM,