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SubjectRe: [2.6.10-rc1 and prev] System unuseable while writing to disk
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
>
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>> ----cpu----
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>> sy id wa
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>> 0 0 0 90148 16108 809360 0 0 0 0 1256 473 0
>> 0 100 0
>> 0 0 0 90148 16108 809360 0 0 0 0 1379 611 3
>> 1 96 0
>> 0 0 0 90148 16108 809360 0 0 0 0 1526 2439 16
>> 5 79 0
>> 0 0 0 90148 16164 809360 0 0 0 120 1563 1824 16
>> 4 80 0
>>
>>
>> Beginning and end the system is idle and then I start writing down the
>> file. During that time thunderbird gets unusable.
>>
>
> It looks like it may be a CPU scheduler issue: Nothing needs to
> be read, no swap activity, enough free memory.

I see this behaviour with default scheduler in vanilla and with staircase...


> However, it also does look like there is a lot of CPU power free,
> which makes the cpu scheduler less likely... Maybe interrupts are
> using a lot of CPU time or latency, and that is being hidden from
> CPU time accounting.
>
> I think Ingo did notice quite large latencies in disk interrupts,
> although whether that would be enough to make thunderbird "unusable",
> I'm not sure.

I tried preempt (inkl preempt "big kernel lock" in ck) which doesn't
avoid above. (I don't rember whether it was better, though.)

bye,

Prakash
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