Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:42:31 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | a repeatable way to stall vm? |
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Hi,
I stumbled onto a strange behavior which may or may not be related to the stalls reported by a couple of people.
What I did, was to run bonnie in tmpfs to beat up the swap code a bit. My setup is 128mb ram, and 256mb swap on /dev/hda2, single spindle. All runs very smoothly (tremendous write throughput btw), doing bonnie -s 240.
I then added a second partition (/dev/hda5) as sequential addon, and tried bonnie -s 500. As soon as it crosses over to the second partition, I see terrible stalls with no disk activity for seconds at a time.
Interrupting bonnie leaves the file in place. As long as this file was present, the box was very unresponsive.. mouse (I'm not running X) jumped around badly etc. rm'd, and responsiveness instantly returned.
-Mike
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