Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Simone Piunno
Alle 17:00, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: > > It was after running bonnie++. > > Are you sure? It lists only 190 commands run since it initialized, > that's basically nothing. Yes I'm sure! Isn't this number the MAX value ever samplef for "Current # commands on controller"? It

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: > Alle 16:54, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: > > > I'd guess that your problem is queueing, if you have a ton of pending > > requests in the hardware it will take forever to get a new request > > through. There's nothing the io scheduler

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Simone Piunno
Alle 16:54, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: > I'd guess that your problem is queueing, if you have a ton of pending > requests in the hardware it will take forever to get a new request > through. There's nothing the io scheduler can do to help you there, > really. The

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Fabio Coatti wrote: > Alle 16:16, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: > > On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: > > > Alle 14:29, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Baruch Even ha scritto: > > > > echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger > > > > > > Before killing bonnie: > > > > I'm

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle 16:16, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: > On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: > > Alle 14:29, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Baruch Even ha scritto: > > > echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger > > > > Before killing bonnie: > > I'm guessing your problem is that bonnie dirtied tons of data

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: > Alle 14:29, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Baruch Even ha scritto: > > > echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger > > Before killing bonnie: I'm guessing your problem is that bonnie dirtied tons of data before you killed it, so it has to flush it out. If you run out of

bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Christian Guggenberger
>> > >> > Unresponsiveness is not 2.6.11 specific (we've seen the same thing on >> > 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), not I/O scheduler specific ("as" and "deadline" behave >> > the same) and not CPU/SMP specific (reproduced on single P4 HT and single >> > P3), but only on these two DL585 servers we've seen

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Baruch Even
Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle 12:35, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Denis Vlasenko ha scritto: Unresponsiveness is not 2.6.11 specific (we've seen the same thing on 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), not I/O scheduler specific ("as" and "deadline" behave the same) and not CPU/SMP specific (reproduced on single P4 HT and

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle 12:35, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Denis Vlasenko ha scritto: > > > > Unresponsiveness is not 2.6.11 specific (we've seen the same thing on > > 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), not I/O scheduler specific ("as" and "deadline" behave > > the same) and not CPU/SMP specific (reproduced on single P4 HT and single >

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 11 March 2005 13:08, Simone Piunno wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm testing a pair of new servers we just bought. > They are HP DL585 dual Opteron 844 with 8G RAM, RAID1 over 2x72G SCSI disks > (HP CISS driver) and running 2.6.11. In /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0 we have: > > cciss0: HP Smart

bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Simone Piunno
Hello, I'm testing a pair of new servers we just bought. They are HP DL585 dual Opteron 844 with 8G RAM, RAID1 over 2x72G SCSI disks (HP CISS driver) and running 2.6.11. In /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0 we have: cciss0: HP Smart Array 5i Controller Board ID: 0x40800e11 Firmware Version: 2.56 IRQ:

bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Simone Piunno
Hello, I'm testing a pair of new servers we just bought. They are HP DL585 dual Opteron 844 with 8G RAM, RAID1 over 2x72G SCSI disks (HP CISS driver) and running 2.6.11. In /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0 we have: cciss0: HP Smart Array 5i Controller Board ID: 0x40800e11 Firmware Version: 2.56 IRQ:

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 11 March 2005 13:08, Simone Piunno wrote: Hello, I'm testing a pair of new servers we just bought. They are HP DL585 dual Opteron 844 with 8G RAM, RAID1 over 2x72G SCSI disks (HP CISS driver) and running 2.6.11. In /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0 we have: cciss0: HP Smart Array 5i

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle 12:35, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Denis Vlasenko ha scritto: Unresponsiveness is not 2.6.11 specific (we've seen the same thing on 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), not I/O scheduler specific (as and deadline behave the same) and not CPU/SMP specific (reproduced on single P4 HT and single P3), but

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Baruch Even
Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle 12:35, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Denis Vlasenko ha scritto: Unresponsiveness is not 2.6.11 specific (we've seen the same thing on 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), not I/O scheduler specific (as and deadline behave the same) and not CPU/SMP specific (reproduced on single P4 HT and single

bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Christian Guggenberger
Unresponsiveness is not 2.6.11 specific (we've seen the same thing on 2.6.10 and 2.6.8), not I/O scheduler specific (as and deadline behave the same) and not CPU/SMP specific (reproduced on single P4 HT and single P3), but only on these two DL585 servers we've seen bonnie++ resisting

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: Alle 14:29, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Baruch Even ha scritto: echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger Before killing bonnie: I'm guessing your problem is that bonnie dirtied tons of data before you killed it, so it has to flush it out. If you run out of request

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Fabio Coatti
Alle 16:16, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: Alle 14:29, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Baruch Even ha scritto: echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger Before killing bonnie: I'm guessing your problem is that bonnie dirtied tons of data before you

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle 16:16, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: Alle 14:29, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Baruch Even ha scritto: echo t /proc/sysrq-trigger Before killing bonnie: I'm guessing your problem

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Simone Piunno
Alle 16:54, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: I'd guess that your problem is queueing, if you have a ton of pending requests in the hardware it will take forever to get a new request through. There's nothing the io scheduler can do to help you there, really. The

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Mar 11 2005, Simone Piunno wrote: Alle 16:54, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: I'd guess that your problem is queueing, if you have a ton of pending requests in the hardware it will take forever to get a new request through. There's nothing the io scheduler can do to

Re: bonnie++ uninterruptible under heavy I/O load

2005-03-11 Thread Simone Piunno
Alle 17:00, venerdì 11 marzo 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritto: It was after running bonnie++. Are you sure? It lists only 190 commands run since it initialized, that's basically nothing. Yes I'm sure! Isn't this number the MAX value ever samplef for Current # commands on controller? It