(Please CC on responses, I'm not subscribed to LKML).
Short problem summary:
Between 2.6.17.4 and 2.6.17.7, SYS cpu usage doubled.
In short, before the upgrade, our DB cpu usage breakdown was:
SYS USER NICE IDLE IOWAIT IRQ SOFTIRQ
BEFORE 28% 71% 0% 80% 15% 1% 5%
AFTER 57% 93% 0% 41% 0% 1% 7%
(See the graphs for more detail. http://isohunt.com/img/stuff/munin-capture/db.isohunt.com-cpu.html)
Notice the big jump in SYS. USER is up a little as well.
IOWAIT should be ignored as we did a RAM upgrade to try and alleviate
some of the work on this box.
The userspace load on this box doesn't vary by more than 10% when
examined at the same time each day.
Here is a complete snapshot set of graphs for the machine in question:
http://isohunt.com/img/stuff/munin-capture/db.isohunt.com.html
Other misc answers before they get asked of me:
- The motherboard used is the Tyan S2881.
- There are two reboots in the graph timeline. The first on 29th was for
the upgrade to 2.6.17.7. The second reboot was on the 31st, was the
RAM being doubled.
Kernel config:
http://isohunt.com/img/stuff/munin-capture/kernel-config-2.6.17.7
http://isohunt.com/img/stuff/munin-capture/kernel-config-2.6.17.4
(oldconfig on .7 added CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y).
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