linux-ext4 - Re: High CPU Utilization When Copying to Ext4

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:24:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
cc:	"Mccauliff, Sean D. (ARC-PX)[Lockheed Martin Space OPNS]" 
	<sean.d.mccauliff@...a.gov>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High CPU Utilization When Copying to Ext4

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Ted Ts'o wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:33:16PM -0500, Mccauliff, Sean D. (ARC-PX)[Lockheed Martin Space OPNS] wrote:
> > Sorry if this is not the correct mailing list for ext4 questions.
> 
> -ext3-users, +linux-ext4
> 
> > I'm copying terabytes of data from an ext3 file system to a new ext4
> > file system.  I'm seeing high CPU usage from the processes
> > flush-253:2, kworker-3:0, kworker-2:2, kworker-1:1, and kworker-0:0.
> > Does anyone on the list have any idea what these processes do, why
> > they are consuming so much cpu time and if there is something that
> > can be done about it?  This is using Fedora 15.
> 
> You're using Fedora 15, so you're using a 2.6.38 kernel, right?
> 
> How are you copying the files?  Are you using cp?  rsync?  NFS?  CIFS?
> 
> what sort of files are you copying?  Are they large files, many of
> small files?   Are there lots of hard links?  etc.
> 
>       	       	   	      	      - Ted

Also, how high is high CPU usage ? Is ext4lazyinit thread running (ps
aux | grep ext4lazyinit) ? If it is could you try to mount it with '-o
noinit_itable' mount option to see if it helps ?


Thanks!
-Lukas
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html