Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:30:57 +0100 | From | Torben Frey <> | Subject | Re: Horrible drive performance under concurrent i/o jobs (dlh problem?) |
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Hi Andrew, hi Con,
> Here's a diff against base 2.4.20. It may be a little out of date > wrt Andrea's latest but it should tell us if we're looking in the > right place. Ok, I did not run the complete 2.4.20aa1 kernel yet since I am not sure if it is intended to be used, but I applied your patch, Andrew (thanks for mailing it). It still does not fix the problem. One job doing much I/O starts with about 80% CPU but then drops down to about 30% in the first 40 seconds. Load goes from 0.00 to 2.4 within that time.
And I can see bdflush and my process marked with "D" in the process list.
Catting the device to /dev/null only made it worse :-(
Creating a 1GB file using dd takes about 1 minute compared to 16 seconds without other jobs running.
Do you think it could be a ReiserFS problem on a RAID? Do you know of anything else I could try? Sorry, but my knowledge doesn't reach that far.
TIA, Torben
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