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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Peter Zaitsev <peter@mysql.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@novell.com,
	alexeyk@mysql.com, markw@osdl.org
Subject: Re: IO performance problems with 2.6.9
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:54:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4178AEC0.5050603@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098426220.5482.235.camel@sphere.site>

Peter Zaitsev wrote:

> 4) Unrelated but still unfortunate.  2.6.9 kernel seems to behave weird
> if swap is disabled.  I was running with 8G of memory allocating 6G for
> MySQL buffers  which left about 1.5G for kernel, 1G of which was used
> for file cache.   During IO intensive run, using buffered IO I got
> "kswapd" running like a crazy taking 90% of CPU time on one of CPUs. 
> What for is it running if there is no swap files enabled ? 
> 

Can you boot with profile=2, and get a profile of about 30 seconds
while kswapd is going crazy please?

Also capture /proc/vmstat before and after that interaval.

Can you also capture a the output of vmstat 1 while this is happening

Thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-22  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-22  6:23 Peter Zaitsev
2004-10-22  6:54 ` Nick Piggin [this message]

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