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SubjectRe: Slowdown on high-load machines with 3000 sockets
This issue has been tracked down more. This bug does NOT appear if I disable preemtive kernel.
Maybe this helps.

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Christian Schmid wrote:
>
>> I already tried with 300 KB and even used a perl-hash as a
>> horrible-slow buffer for a readahead-replacement. It still slowed down
>> on the syswrite to the socket. Thats the strange thing.
>>
>
> Do you have to use manual readahead though? What is the performance
> like if you just let the kernel do its own thing? The kernel's
> readahead provides things like automatic scaling and thrashing
> control, so if possible you should just stick to that.
>
> Although you may want to experiment with the maximum readahead on your
> working disks:
> /sys/block/???/queue/read_ahead_kb
>
> Also, can we get a testcase (ie. minimal compilable code) to reproduce
> this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>
>
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