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From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.19/2.6.20-rc3 buffered write slowdown
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:08:55 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110230855.GF44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701101503310.22578@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:04:15PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, David Chinner wrote:
> 
> > The performance and smoothness is fully restored on 2.6.20-rc3
> > by setting dirty_ratio down to 10 (from the default 40), so
> > something in the VM is not working as well as it used to....
> 
> dirty_background_ratio is left as is at 10?

Yes.

> So you gain performance by switching off background writes via pdflush?

Well, pdflush appears to be doing very little on both 2.6.18 and
2.6.20-rc3. In both cases kswapd is consuming 10-20% of a CPU and
all of the pdflush threads combined (I've seen up to 7 active at
once) use maybe 1-2% of cpu time. This occurs regardless of the
dirty_ratio setting.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-10 22:37 David Chinner
2007-01-10 23:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-10 23:08   ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-01-10 23:12     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-10 23:18       ` David Chinner
2007-01-10 23:13     ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  0:31       ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  0:43         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-11  1:06           ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  1:40             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-11  2:57               ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  1:08         ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  1:24           ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  9:27             ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11 17:51               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-12  0:06                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12  3:04                   ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found]           ` <20070111063555.GB33919298@melbourne.sgi.com>
2007-01-11  9:23             ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  1:11     ` David Chinner

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