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Message-Id: <1228871206.30231.76.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:06:45 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: 2.6.26.3 kernel - progressive slowdown over NFS

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 16:38 -0800, Ray Lee wrote:
> [ adding netdev, linux-nfs to cc: -- rbl ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> We have a simple python program which keeps running a C loop to lstat
> NFS mounted directories.  We are seeing some weird behavior w.r.t. the
> run-time of this program on 2.6.26.3 kernel vs 2.6.24 kernel.
> 
> The run-time of the following code increases over time on the 2.6.26.3
> kernel, whereas remains flat (as expected) on the 2.6.24 kernel.
> [See attached graphs - B1.jpg and B2.jpg]  Once the 2.6.26.3 machine
> gets into this state, we need to restart the box to get back to
> reasonable run-times.  Is this a known issue ?

Could you try applying the following patch?

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=23918b03060f6e572168fdde1798a905679d2e06

Trond

PS: note that your 2.6.26 config file has _very_ different memory models
and kernel debugging options enabled compared to your 2.6.24 kernel.
That may also affect performance.

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