From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: thunder7@xs4all.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.72: system unusable during upload to slow nfs-server
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:04:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030623000400.4072f94b.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030623052004.GA7270@middle.of.nowhere>
Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> I rsync some directories to a nfs-mount on a very large harddisk on a
> non-udma system. This system can read/write data at about 3-4 megabyte
> per second.
>
> If I rsync in 2.4, all happens as you'd expect: the update doesn't go
> fast, but the interactivity of the kernel is good while it's running.
>
>
> In 2.5.7x, it runs really fast for a while (rsync mentions 30 mb/s), and
> after a while slows down. Then, a mutt-session on another console lags
> about 10-30 seconds when you press a key. top gives 98% IO-wait.
Please send a `vmstat 1' trace, and the contents of /proc/vmstat
taken when the thing is being sluggish.
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2003-06-23 5:20 Jurriaan
2003-06-23 7:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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