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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Haakon Riiser <hakonrk@ulrik.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Busy-wait delay in qmail 1.03 after upgrading to Linux 2.6
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:43:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040113154348.5542cb7b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040113232624.GA302@s.chello.no>

Haakon Riiser <hakonrk@ulrik.uio.no> wrote:
>
> > Seems innocuous.  What filesystem type is lock/trigger on?
> 
> Reiserfs.
> 
> > Can you generate a kernel profile of this activity?
> 
> Done.  Note that I had to reboot to do the profiling, so the
> delay is not as bad as the first example:
> 
>   344   00:19:07.476825 write(5, "\0", 1) = 1 <0.291500>
> 
> Still around 700 times slower than 2.4 though. :-)  Anyway,
> here are the results:
> 
> Output from time:
> 
>   real    0m0.309s
>   user    0m0.011s
>   sys     0m0.004s
> 
> Data in prof.time:

OK, that's inconclusive.  Could you do a few runs, or leave it a day or
two, wait until the problem is really prominent and see if you can gather a
clearer profile?  The profiling overhead is negligible when profiling is
enabled but not in use, so there is no need to reboot.


Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-13 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-13 21:09 Haakon Riiser
2004-01-13 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-13 23:26   ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-13 23:43     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-14  0:07       ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-14 11:29         ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-20  0:46           ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-13 23:46     ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-14  0:06       ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-14 10:27       ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-01-14 11:20         ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-15  0:12         ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-20  5:51 Peter Maas
     [not found] <20040120021353.39e9155e.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-01-20 18:33 ` Fw: " Manfred Spraul
2004-01-20 19:22   ` Haakon Riiser
2004-01-20 19:45     ` Mike Fedyk

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