linux-kernel - Re: slow performance on disk/network i/o full speed after drop

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Message-Id: <D299D0AE-2F3C-42E2-9723-A3D7C0108C40@profihost.ag>
Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:13:07 +0200
From:	Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: slow performance on disk/network i/o full speed after drop_caches


>> There is at least a numastat proc file.
> 
> Thanks. This shows that node0 is accessed 10x more than node1.

What can i do to prevent this or isn't this normal when a machine mostly idles so processes are mostly processed by cpu0.

> 
>> complete ps output:
>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=b948svzN
> 
> In that log, scp happens to be in R state and also no other tasks in D
> state. Would you retry in the hope of catching some stucked state?
Sadly not as the sysrq trigger has rebootet the machine and it will now run fine for 1 or 2 days.

> 
>>>         echo t>  /proc/sysrq-trigger
>> sadly i wa sonly able to grab the output in this crazy format:
>> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MBXvvyH1
> 
> It's pretty readable dmesg, except that the data is incomplete and
> there are nothing valuable in the uploaded portion..
That was everything i could grab through netconsole. Is there a better way?

Stefan
> 
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