Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:52:57 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: shrink_dcache_sb scalability problem. |
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David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> wrote: > > After recently upgrading a build machine to 2.6.16, we started > seeing 10-50s pauses where the machine would appear to hang.
This sounds like the recent thread "Avoid excessive time spend on concurrent slab shrinking" over on linux-mm. Have you read through that?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&r=1&b=200603&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&r=3&b=200604&w=2
It ended up somewaht inconclusive, but it looks like we do have a bit of a problem, but it got exacerbated by an XFS slowness.
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