From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030415AbWGHXIs (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:08:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030416AbWGHXIs (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:08:48 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:62399 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030415AbWGHXIr (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:08:47 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ask List Subject: Re: Runnable threads on run queue Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20060708221923.GA1893@gallifrey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 66.237.13.5 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I dont exactly have iostat -x 1 from the same time frame. But I do have the collected sar data from before and during our period of high load. Here is a snippet before ... tps rtps wtps bread/s bwrtn/s 11:46:00 PM 5.00 0.00 5.00 0.00 160.00 11:46:01 PM 8.91 0.00 8.91 0.00 182.18 11:46:02 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 368.00 11:46:03 PM 7.92 0.00 7.92 0.00 142.57 11:46:04 PM 13.00 0.00 13.00 0.00 336.00 11:46:05 PM 9.90 0.00 9.90 0.00 261.39 11:46:06 PM 9.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 264.00 11:46:07 PM 6.93 0.00 6.93 0.00 198.02 11:46:08 PM 8.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 288.00 11:46:09 PM 12.87 0.00 12.87 0.00 324.75 11:46:10 PM 9.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 280.00 11:46:11 PM 6.93 0.00 6.93 0.00 134.65 11:46:12 PM 12.00 0.00 12.00 0.00 336.00 11:46:13 PM 10.89 0.00 10.89 0.00 253.47 11:46:14 PM 18.00 0.00 18.00 0.00 464.00 11:46:15 PM 4.81 0.00 4.81 0.00 84.62 11:46:16 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 328.00 11:46:17 PM 10.89 0.00 10.89 0.00 269.31 11:46:18 PM 11.00 0.00 11.00 0.00 304.00 11:46:19 PM 30.69 0.00 30.69 0.00 451.49 11:46:20 PM 9.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 272.00 11:46:21 PM 5.94 0.00 5.94 0.00 95.05 11:46:22 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 304.00 11:46:23 PM 5.94 0.00 5.94 0.00 150.50 11:46:24 PM 17.00 0.00 17.00 0.00 432.00 11:46:25 PM 6.93 0.00 6.93 0.00 190.10 11:46:26 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 344.00 11:46:27 PM 8.91 0.00 8.91 0.00 166.34 11:46:28 PM 7.00 0.00 7.00 0.00 192.00 11:46:29 PM 15.84 0.00 15.84 0.00 427.72 11:46:30 PM 7.00 0.00 7.00 0.00 168.00 11:46:31 PM 9.90 0.00 9.90 0.00 221.78 11:46:32 PM 12.00 0.00 12.00 0.00 360.00 11:46:33 PM 10.89 0.00 10.89 0.00 245.54 11:46:34 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 280.00 11:46:35 PM 6.93 0.00 6.93 0.00 134.65 11:46:36 PM 11.00 0.00 11.00 0.00 296.00 11:46:37 PM 8.91 0.00 8.91 0.00 205.94 11:46:38 PM 12.00 0.00 12.00 0.00 376.00 11:46:39 PM 14.85 0.00 14.85 0.00 435.64 11:46:40 PM 9.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 248.00 11:46:41 PM 7.92 0.00 7.92 0.00 237.62 11:46:42 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 320.00 11:46:43 PM 5.94 0.00 5.94 0.00 55.45 11:46:44 PM 15.00 0.00 15.00 0.00 408.00 11:46:45 PM 9.90 0.00 9.90 0.00 229.70 11:46:46 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 272.00 11:46:47 PM 10.89 0.00 10.89 0.00 269.31 11:46:48 PM 10.00 0.00 10.00 0.00 272.00 11:46:49 PM 36.63 0.00 36.63 0.00 514.85 11:46:50 PM 11.00 0.00 11.00 0.00 296.00 11:46:51 PM 8.91 0.00 8.91 0.00 205.94 11:46:52 PM 11.00 0.00 11.00 0.00 312.00 11:46:53 PM 8.91 0.00 8.91 0.00 190.10 11:46:54 PM 15.00 0.00 15.00 0.00 368.00 11:46:55 PM 9.90 0.00 9.90 0.00 253.47 11:46:56 PM 11.00 0.00 11.00 0.00 352.00 11:46:57 PM 8.91 0.00 8.91 0.00 245.54 11:46:58 PM 9.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 256.00 11:46:59 PM 11.88 0.00 11.88 0.00 308.91 11:47:00 PM 7.00 0.00 7.00 0.00 168.00 and here is a snippet during high load.... 12:13:00 AM 6.00 0.00 6.00 0.00 224.00 12:13:01 AM 8.06 0.00 8.06 0.00 180.65 12:13:02 AM 18.00 0.00 18.00 0.00 544.00 12:13:03 AM 8.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 192.00 12:13:04 AM 47.00 0.00 47.00 0.00 856.00 12:13:05 AM 8.91 0.00 8.91 0.00 229.70 12:13:06 AM 15.00 0.00 15.00 0.00 392.00 12:13:07 AM 9.90 0.00 9.90 0.00 229.70 12:13:08 AM 8.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 232.00 12:13:09 AM 15.52 0.00 15.52 0.00 379.31 12:13:10 AM 6.98 0.00 6.98 0.00 198.45 12:13:12 AM 12.96 0.00 12.96 0.00 348.15 12:13:13 AM 17.00 0.00 17.00 0.00 424.00 12:13:14 AM 28.74 0.00 28.74 0.00 526.95 12:13:15 AM 13.46 0.00 13.46 0.00 361.54 12:13:16 AM 9.40 0.00 9.40 0.00 225.64 12:13:17 AM 15.00 0.00 15.00 0.00 488.00 12:13:19 AM 14.91 0.00 14.91 0.00 377.64 12:13:20 AM 9.00 0.00 9.00 0.00 296.00 12:13:21 AM 12.15 0.00 12.15 0.00 366.36 12:13:22 AM 26.00 0.00 26.00 0.00 784.00 12:13:24 AM 11.06 0.00 11.06 0.00 324.42 12:13:25 AM 14.81 0.00 14.81 0.00 333.33 12:13:26 AM 25.47 0.00 25.47 0.00 777.36 12:13:27 AM 19.00 0.00 19.00 0.00 480.00 12:13:28 AM 20.79 0.00 20.79 0.00 538.61 12:13:29 AM 5.00 0.00 5.00 0.00 136.00 12:13:31 AM 12.73 0.00 12.73 0.00 298.18 12:13:32 AM 23.00 0.00 23.00 0.00 632.00 12:13:33 AM 36.79 0.00 36.79 0.00 1011.32 12:13:34 AM 37.50 0.00 37.50 0.00 950.00 12:13:35 AM 7.76 0.00 7.76 0.00 186.21 12:13:36 AM 12.93 0.00 12.93 0.00 324.14 12:13:38 AM 8.57 0.00 8.57 0.00 210.29 12:13:39 AM 30.00 0.00 30.00 0.00 696.00 12:13:40 AM 9.90 0.00 9.90 0.00 245.54 12:13:41 AM 12.00 0.00 12.00 0.00 328.00 12:13:42 AM 5.94 0.00 5.94 0.00 63.37 12:13:43 AM 7.00 0.00 7.00 0.00 256.00 12:13:44 AM 44.54 0.00 44.54 0.00 746.22 12:13:45 AM 9.71 0.00 9.71 0.00 248.54 12:13:46 AM 13.89 0.00 13.89 0.00 370.37 12:13:47 AM 13.00 0.00 13.00 0.00 336.00 12:13:48 AM 13.86 0.00 13.86 0.00 324.75 12:13:49 AM 15.00 0.00 15.00 0.00 344.00 12:13:50 AM 3.96 0.00 3.96 0.00 39.60 12:13:51 AM 11.00 0.00 11.00 0.00 368.00 12:13:52 AM 7.92 0.00 7.92 0.00 174.26 12:13:54 AM 10.17 0.00 10.17 0.00 266.67 12:13:55 AM 7.41 0.00 7.41 0.00 133.33 12:13:56 AM 15.00 0.00 15.00 0.00 328.00 12:13:57 AM 5.71 0.00 5.71 0.00 91.43 12:13:58 AM 9.68 0.00 9.68 0.00 316.13 12:13:59 AM 24.27 0.00 24.27 0.00 520.39 12:14:00 AM 10.89 0.00 10.89 0.00 324.75 ... I hope this helps.