On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 09:37:26AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
> Do you happen to know why 
> 
>       vmstat -e | fgrep "bus_dma bounces"
> 
> shows a > 500 rate e.g. on b45? I never see a single bounce on any of my
> amd64 machines. The build slaves seem to do only a few of them though.

Only the master does much if any disk (actually SSD) I/O.  It must be
either the mpt driver or the scsi subsystem.  At a _guess_, mpt?  I
don't have time to look right now.

This is annoying, but seems unlikely to be the cause of the performance
regression; I don't think the master runs builds any more, does it?  So
it shouldn't be doing much and should have tons of CPU and memory
bandwidth available to move that data.

-- 
  Thor Lancelot Simon                                        [email protected]
 "The two most common variations translate as follows:
        illegitimi non carborundum = the unlawful are not silicon carbide
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