From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shrink_dcache_sb scalability problem.
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:52:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060413015257.5b9d0972.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060413082210.GM1484909@melbourne.sgi.com>
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> After recently upgrading a build machine to 2.6.16, we started
> seeing 10-50s pauses where the machine would appear to hang.
This sounds like the recent thread "Avoid excessive time spend on
concurrent slab shrinking" over on linux-mm. Have you read through that?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&r=1&b=200603&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&r=3&b=200604&w=2
It ended up somewaht inconclusive, but it looks like we do have a bit of a
problem, but it got exacerbated by an XFS slowness.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-13 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-13 8:22 David Chinner
2006-04-13 8:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-14 3:43 ` David Chinner
2006-04-14 5:23 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-15 5:25 ` Bharata B Rao
2006-04-15 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-18 5:57 ` Bharata B Rao
2006-04-18 0:29 ` David Chinner
2006-04-18 14:37 ` [RFC][PATCH] " David Chinner
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