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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: mmap over nfs leads to excessive system load
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:01:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131480107.32482.48.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051108192515.17247.qmail@web34105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:25 -0800, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> Just another data point....
> If I open the file with O_DIRECT.. not much changes:

Hmm... Are you mounting using the -osync or -onoac options? Doing
synchronous writes will tend to slow down flushing considerably, and the
VM appears to be very fragile w.r.t. slow filesystems.

Cheers,
  Trond


> samples  %        image name               app name                 symbol name
> 12585321 18.9373  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           find_get_pages_tag
> 8608887  12.9539  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           mpage_writepages
> 6870600  10.3383  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           unlock_page
> 6605417   9.9393  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           clear_page_dirty_for_io
> 6259207   9.4183  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           release_pages
> 3249493   4.8896  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           __lookup_tag
> 3248871   4.8886  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           pci_conf1_write
> 2677914   4.0295  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           page_waitqueue
> 982811    1.4789  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           _read_lock_irqsave
> 917165    1.3801  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           _read_unlock_irq
> 758960    1.1420  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           __wake_up_bit
> 706607    1.0632  vmlinux-2.6.14           vmlinux-2.6.14           _spin_lock_irqsave
> 
> 
> -Kenny
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-08 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-08 19:25 Kenny Simpson
2005-11-08 20:01 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2005-11-08 20:18   ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-08 20:57   ` Kenny Simpson
     [not found] <20051115224645.27832.qmail@web34103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
2005-11-15 23:47 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16  4:31   ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-11-16  6:05     ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16  7:45   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 14:03     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 15:01       ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 17:44         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 18:00           ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 18:34             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 18:38               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-17 13:08                 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-11-16 19:09               ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 20:05                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 20:56                   ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:02                     ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:09                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 21:17                       ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:41                       ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:57                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:04                           ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 22:39                           ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 23:06                             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17 15:40                               ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-17 16:56                                 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-17 16:01                               ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-17 21:04                                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-17 21:15                                   ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-18 16:55                                   ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-18 17:26                                   ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-18 21:57                                   ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-17 17:02                               ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-17 17:07                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-18 19:59                               ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:31                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 21:49                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:10                       ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 22:23                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:38                           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:50                             ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 22:44                           ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 23:10                             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17  0:06                             ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17  0:25                               ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-17  0:28                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17  0:38                                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-17  0:47                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 18:48           ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 19:06           ` Kenny Simpson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-08 18:47 Kenny Simpson

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