linux-kernel - Re: Slow Disk I/O

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Message-ID: <4C005957.9040408@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 May 2010 18:01:27 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
To:	"Brian D. McGrew" <brian@...ionpro.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slow Disk I/O

On 05/28/2010 12:34 PM, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Good morning All!
>
> I¹m running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 on a Dell T5500 with 3GB || 12GB or RAM. I¹m
> running a 2.6.18-128.el5 kernel.  There is a 500GB SATA drive connected to
> the onboard SATA controller.  I can reproduce this problem with CentOS 5.4
> i386 on the Dell T5500, T5400 and Optiplex 740¹s.
>
> So now, on to the problem...  In our software, we¹re reading in 5MP image
> files in the neighborhood of 500 to 1500 files at a time.  Just a simple
> for() loop, open, read, close...  Nothing fancy...
>
> When I have 3GB of RAM in the system, life is good.. Each read takes 8 to
> 10ms...  This is a good thing!
>
> If I bump the memory up to 12GB, all of the reads are now taking 150 to
> 200ms.
>
> My default, va.swappines to set to 60...  If I decrease this number, the
> problem gets much worse.  If I up va.swappines to 100, the problem gets a
> little better, but not a whole lot.
>
> What should I be looking at???

Can you post the dmesg output and the contents of /proc/mtrr?
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