Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-22 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-22 Thread Martin Knoblauch
-- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - Original Message > From: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Linus Torva

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-22 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-19 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: [PATCH] writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files

2008-01-19 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: [PATCH] writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files

2008-01-19 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-19 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
h as in rc1-rc5. To bad I did not see this earlier. Maybe we could have found a solution for .24. At least, rc1-rc5 have shown that the CCISS system can do well. Now the question is which part of the system does not cope well with the larger IO sizes? Is it the CCISS controller, LVM or both. I am open to

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
that. Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: regression: 100% io-wait with 2.6.24-rcX

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux-Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2008-01-11 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: WU Fengguang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Hans-Peter Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Sascha Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2008-01-11 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux-Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: Strange NFS write performance Linux-Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Strange NFS write performance Linux->Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-28 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Strange NFS write performance Linux-Solaris-10/VXFS, maybe VW related

2007-12-28 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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What is the unit of "nr_writeback"?

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi, forgive the stupid question. What is the unit of "nr_writeback"? One would usually assume a rate, but looking at the code I see it added together with nr_dirty and nr_unstable, somehow defeating the assumption. Cheers Martin ---

Re: Stack warning from 2.6.24-rc

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 12:52:23 PM > Subject: Re: Stack warning from 2.6.24-rc > > > * Martin Knoblauch

Re: Stack warning from 2.6.24-rc

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 12:52:23 PM Subject: Re: Stack warning from 2.6.24-rc * Martin Knoblauch wrote: I see the following stack warning

What is the unit of nr_writeback?

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Hi, forgive the stupid question. What is the unit of nr_writeback? One would usually assume a rate, but looking at the code I see it added together with nr_dirty and nr_unstable, somehow defeating the assumption. Cheers Martin -- Martin

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-12 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LKML > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:45:57 AM > Subject: Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1 &

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-12 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message From: Zhang, Yanmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LKML linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:45:57 AM Subject: Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1 On Fri, 2007-11-09

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-09 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: LKML > Sent: Friday, November 9, 2007 10:47:52 AM > Subject: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1 > > Comparing with 2.6.23, iozone sequential write/rewrite (512M) has > 50% >

Re: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1

2007-11-09 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message From: Zhang, Yanmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: LKML linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Friday, November 9, 2007 10:47:52 AM Subject: iozone write 50% regression in kernel 2.6.24-rc1 Comparing with 2.6.23, iozone sequential write/rewrite (512M)

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:33:40 PM > Subject:

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
- Original Message > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: 2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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2.6.24-rc1: First impressions

2007-10-26 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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Re: [PATCH 0/5] sluggish writeback fixes

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
7.patch > writeback-fix-periodic-superblock-dirty-inode-flushing.patch > > Regards, > Fengguang Hi Fenguang, now that Peters stuff seems to make it into mainline, do you think your fixes should go in as well? Would definitely help to broaden the tester base. Definitely by one very int

Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
pinions? > Hi Peter, my only opinion is that it is great to see that stuff moving into mainline. If it really goes in, there will be one more very interested rc-tester :-) Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www:

Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
want /sys/bdi/foo/ or maybe /debug/bdi/foo/ Opinions? Hi Peter, my only opinion is that it is great to see that stuff moving into mainline. If it really goes in, there will be one more very interested rc-tester :-) Cheers Martin -- Martin

Re: [PATCH 0/5] sluggish writeback fixes

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
to make it into mainline, do you think your fixes should go in as well? Would definitely help to broaden the tester base. Definitely by one very interested tester :-) Keep on the good work Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Leroy van Logchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > >> Ok perhaps the new adaptive dirty limits h

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Leroy van Logchem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Ok perhaps the new adaptive dirty limits helps your single disk a lot too. But your improvements seem

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Knoblauch
e CCISS controller in the DL380g4. Could you elaborate why that is a problematic case? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Knoblauch
). didn't see that remark before. I just realized that slow device with writeback cache pretty well describes the CCISS controller in the DL380g4. Could you elaborate why that is a problematic case? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
s, I did some tests today with 2.6.22.6+bdi-v9 (Peter was so kind) which seem to indicate that it hurts NFS writes. Anyone seen similar effects? Otherwise I would just second your request. It definitely helps the problematic performance of my CCISS based RAID5 volume. Martin Martin -

Re: huge improvement with per-device dirty throttling

2007-09-04 Thread Martin Knoblauch
CCISS based RAID5 volume. Martin Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RFC: [PATCH] Small patch on top of per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > --- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > > >

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
to syslog. If the sysadmin is not competent enough to notice, to bad. Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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RFC: [PATCH] Small patch on top of per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-09-03 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: --- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: Peter, any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-31 Thread Martin Knoblauch
parently the NFS client is able to detect them :-). Do this regardless of the "nosharecache" option. This way admins will at least be made aware of the situation. - In a year or so we can talk about making the default safe. With proper advertising. Just my € 0.02. Cheers Martin --

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-08-31 Thread Martin Knoblauch
will at least be made aware of the situation. - In a year or so we can talk about making the default safe. With proper advertising. Just my € 0.02. Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
depth since init: 197 Max # commands on controller since init: 198 Max SG entries since init: 31 Sequential access devices: 0 Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
out. At least with the "6i", you do not want to disable the WBC :-) Performance really goes down the toilet for all cases. Do you still have a pointer to that bulletin? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT

RE: regression of autofs for current git?

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
if the new behaviour could be globally changed at run- (or boot-) time. It will be some time until the new mount option makes it into the distros. Cheers Martin PS: Sorry, but I likely killed the CC list ------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT

RE: regression of autofs for current git?

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
be globally changed at run- (or boot-) time. It will be some time until the new mount option makes it into the distros. Cheers Martin PS: Sorry, but I likely killed the CC list -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
:-) Performance really goes down the toilet for all cases. Do you still have a pointer to that bulletin? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Logical drives: 1 Current Q depth: 0 Current # commands on controller: 0 Max Q depth since init: 197 Max # commands on controller since init: 198 Max SG entries since init: 31 Sequential access devices: 0 Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > &

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28 2007, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > Keywords: I/O, bdi-v9, cfs > > > > Try limiting the queue depth on the cciss device, some of those are > notoriously bad at starving commands. Something like the b

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:15:45AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > --- Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You are apparently running into the sluggish kupdate-style > writebac

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 08:53:07AM -0700, 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 &

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 08:53:07AM -0700, 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

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:15:45AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: --- Fengguang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are apparently running into the sluggish kupdate-style writeback problem with large files: huge amount of dirty pages

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 28 2007, Martin Knoblauch wrote: Keywords: I/O, bdi-v9, cfs Try limiting the queue depth on the cciss device, some of those are notoriously bad at starving commands. Something like the below hack, see if it makes a difference

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Chuck Ebbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Knoblauch
n any case, view this as a report for one specific loadcase that does not behave very well. It seems there are ways to make things better (sync, per device throttling, ...), but nothing "perfect yet. Use once does seem to be a problem. Cheers Martin --

Understanding I/O behaviour - next try

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Knoblauch
. It seems there are ways to make things better (sync, per device throttling, ...), but nothing perfect yet. Use once does seem to be a problem. Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > --- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > > > >

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 08:59 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: --- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: Peter, any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > Peter, > > > > any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable? > > > > The 2.6.23 series may not be usable for me due to the > >

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-23 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: Peter, any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable? The 2.6.23 series may not be usable for me due to the nosharedcache changes for NFS (the new default will massively

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > Peter, > > > > any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable? > > > > The 2.6.23 series may not be usable for me due to the > >

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
new default will massively disturb the user-space automounter). Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EM

RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
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RE: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v9

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 05:49 -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote: Peter, any chance to get a rollup against 2.6.22-stable? The 2.6.23 series may not be usable for me due to the nosharedcache changes for NFS (the new default will massively

Re: [PATCH 00/17] per device dirty throttling -v7

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
testing of several problem cases. just curious - what are the plans towards inclusion in mainline? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [PATCH 00/17] per device dirty throttling -v7

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Knoblauch
? Cheers Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/07/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/07/07, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > I'd suspect you can't get both at 100%. > > > &

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/07/07, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/07/07, Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd suspect you can't get both at 100%. I'd guess you are probably using a 100Hz no-preempt kernel. Have you tried a 1000Hz

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Daniel J Blueman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Jul, 16:50, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for a customer we are operating a rackful of HP/DL380/G4 boxes > that > > have given us some problems with system responsive

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
) have /proc/sys/vm/swappiness=2 >4) run Peter Zijlstra: per dirty device throttling patch on the > top of 2.6.21.5: >http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.1/2776.html Brice, any of them sufficient, or all together nedded? Just to avoid confusion. Cheers Martin -

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Martin Knoblauch wrote: >--- Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Try playing with reducing /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and see how that >> helps. This workload will fill up memory with dirty data very >> quickly, >> and it seems like system

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
of data from one NFS mounted FS to another NFS mounted FS. No disk involved there. Memory fills with page-cache until it reaches a ceeling and then for some time responsiveness is really really bad. I am just now playing with the dirty_* stuff. Maybe it helps. Cheers Martin -----

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
at the lower limit is? "0" seems acceptabel, but does it actually imply "write out immediatelly"? Another problem, the VM parameters are not really well dociúmented in their behaviour and interdependence. Cheers Martin -- Ma

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
e (NOOP and DeadLine seem to be equally OK). CFQ gives less (about 10-15%) throughput except for the kernel with the cfs cpu scheduler, where CFQ is on par with the other IO schedulers. Thanks Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobiso

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-06 Thread Martin Knoblauch
for the kernel with the cfs cpu scheduler, where CFQ is on par with the other IO schedulers. Thanks Martin -- Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

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