From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: PROBLEM: Heavy iowait on 2.6 kernels
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:35:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086942905.10540.69.camel@cronos.home.vsb> (raw)
I recently discovered why my new Gentoo server slows to a crawl on a
intermediate load on the 2.6 kernel series. The reason seems to be an
unusual amount of iowait.
I can reproduce this on two systems, one with a KT400 and and one with
Sis735 chipset.
iostat -c 1 (or vmstat) while running something like bonnie produces
iowaits of 99%.
Any 2.6 kernel responds the same (regardless of the patchset), even
vanilla. (2.6.5-mm, 2.6.6-mm, 2.6.6-vanilla and 2.6.5-gentoo-r1).
Any 2.4-series kernel is fine.
This is a sample iostat output
--
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
26.73 0.00 10.89 62.38 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
0.00 0.00 13.00 87.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
1.01 0.00 16.16 82.83 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
0.00 0.00 11.88 88.12 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
0.00 0.00 1.01 98.99 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
0.99 0.00 2.97 96.04 0.00
--
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______________________________________________________________________
Guy Van Sanden
http://unixmafia.port5.com
Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997
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next reply other threads:[~2004-06-11 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-11 8:35 Guy Van Sanden [this message]
2004-06-12 6:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-16 6:15 ` Clint Byrum
2004-06-16 7:25 ` Guy Van Sanden
2004-06-16 7:45 ` Nick Piggin
2004-06-16 12:21 ` Guy Van Sanden
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