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SubjectRe: System CPU increasing on idle 2.6.36
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 05:08:01PM -0800, Simon Kirby wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 01:25:05PM -0800, Simon Kirby wrote:
>
> > Possibly related to the flush-processes-taking-CPU issues I saw
> > previously, I thought this was interesting. I found a log-crunching box
> > that does all of its work via NFS and spends most of the day sleeping.
> > It has been using a linearly-increasing amount of system time during the
> > time where is sleeping. munin graph:
> >
> > http://0x.ca/sim/ref/2.6.36/cpu_logcrunch_nfs.png
> >...
> > Known 2.6.36 issue? This did not occur on 2.6.35.4, according to the
> > munin graphs. I'll try 2.6.37-rc an see if it changes.
>
> So, back on this topic,
>
> It seems that system CPU from "flush" processes is still increasing
> during and after periods of NFS activity, even with 2.6.37-rc5-git4:
>
> http://0x.ca/sim/ref/2.6.37/cpu_nfs.png
>
> Something is definitely going on while NFS is active, and then keeps
> happening in the idle periods. top and perf top look the same as in
> 2.6.36. No userland activity at all, but the kernel keeps doing stuff.
>
> I could bisect this, but I have to wait a day for each build, unless I
> can come up with a way to reproduce it more quickly. The mount points
> for which the flush processes are active are the two mount points where
> the logs are read from, rotated, compressed, and unlinked, and where the
> reports are written, running in parallel under an xargs -P 15.
>
> I'm pretty sure the only syscalls that are reproducing this are read(),
> readdir(), lstat(), write(), rename(), unlink(), and close(). There's
> nothing special happening here...

I've noticed nfs_inode_cache is ever-increasing as well with 2.6.37:

OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME
2562514 2541520 99% 0.95K 78739 33 2519648K nfs_inode_cache
467200 285110 61% 0.02K 1825 256 7300K kmalloc-16
299397 242350 80% 0.19K 14257 21 57028K dentry
217434 131978 60% 0.55K 7767 28 124272K radix_tree_node
215232 81522 37% 0.06K 3363 64 13452K kmalloc-64
183027 136802 74% 0.10K 4693 39 18772K buffer_head
101120 71184 70% 0.03K 790 128 3160K kmalloc-32
79616 59713 75% 0.12K 2488 32 9952K kmalloc-128
66560 41257 61% 0.01K 130 512 520K kmalloc-8
42126 26650 63% 0.75K 2006 21 32096K ext3_inode_cache

http://0x.ca/sim/ref/2.6.37/inodes_nfs.png
http://0x.ca/sim/ref/2.6.37/cpu2_nfs.png

Perhaps I could bisect just fs/nfs changes between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 to
try to track this down without having to wait too long, unless somebody
can see what is happening here.

Simon-


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