Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-05 Thread Perry Taylor
From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Butera Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:51 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux Perry I'm curious how large "large" is for you

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-05 Thread Jeffrey Butera
: Monday, February 04, 2013 3:32 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux > > > Other users could have been hanging at malloc. With a swappiness of 100 (on > some kernels) or 100 (on others) or "not 0 or 100"(not

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-05 Thread Perry Taylor
-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Fitzgerald Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 3:32 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux Other users could have been hanging at malloc. With a swappiness of 100 (on some kernels) or 100 (on others) or "not 0 o

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-05 Thread Hona, David
2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Fitzgerald Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2013 9:32 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux Other users could have been hanging at malloc. With a swappiness of 100 (on some kernels

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-05 Thread Symeon Breen
...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: 04 February 2013 21:15 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux On 04/02/13 21:05, Dan Fitzgerald wrote: > > What's the value in /proc/sys/vm

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Dan Fitzgerald
2.6.8.1... > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 21:15:25 + > From: antli...@youngman.org.uk > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux > > On 04/02/13 21:05, Dan Fitzgerald wrote: > > > > What's the value in /proc/sys/v

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Wols Lists
On 04/02/13 21:34, Perry Taylor wrote: > Yes we are on RH support. I'll run it by them and see. Again, this is from memory, but I think somebody noticed that copying a single very large file brought a system to its knees until the copy finished, and the whole thing spiralled from there. Probably

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Perry Taylor
y.tay...@zirmed.com >> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:53:13 + >> Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux >> >> We're on RHEL5 (2.6.18-348.el5), ext3 and 132GB ram. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: u

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Perry Taylor
70. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Fitzgerald Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 2:06 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux What's the

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Wols Lists
u2ug.org >> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:53:13 + >> Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux >> >> We're on RHEL5 (2.6.18-348.el5), ext3 and 132GB ram. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Dan Fitzgerald
What's the value in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness? > From: perry.tay...@zirmed.com > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:53:13 + > Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux > > We're on RHEL5 (2.6.18-348.el5), ext3 and 132GB ram

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Perry Taylor
ebruary 2013 15:57 To: U2-Users List Subject: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux Looking for some ideas on how to keep Linux from becoming largely unresponsive when creating large files. What happens is as the new file is being created the I/O buffer cache quickly fills up with dirty buf

Re: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Symeon Breen
-Users List Subject: [U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux Looking for some ideas on how to keep Linux from becoming largely unresponsive when creating large files. What happens is as the new file is being created the I/O buffer cache quickly fills up with dirty buffers. Until the kernel can flush

[U2] [UV] Large File Operations Kill Linux

2013-02-04 Thread Perry Taylor
Looking for some ideas on how to keep Linux from becoming largely unresponsive when creating large files. What happens is as the new file is being created the I/O buffer cache quickly fills up with dirty buffers. Until the kernel can flush these out to disk there is no avail buffers for I/O op