Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264262AbTKKFoT (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:44:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264266AbTKKFoT (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:44:19 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:53213 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264262AbTKKFoS (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:44:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:44:15 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Paul Venezia cc: Andrew Morton , Subject: Re: I/O issues, iowait problems, 2.4 v 2.6 In-Reply-To: <1068526547.22800.131.camel@soul.jpj.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1374 Lines: 30 On 10 Nov 2003, Paul Venezia wrote: > > I rebooted and shot these, starting 5 seconds before the cat: > > 0 0 0 1474524 7084 42420 0 0 0 0 1033 47 0 0 100 0 > 0 0 0 1474524 7084 42420 0 0 0 0 1031 38 0 0 100 0 > 0 0 0 1474524 7084 42420 0 0 0 0 1016 12 0 0 100 0 > 1 0 0 1373716 7184 140376 0 0 0 0 1020 14 0 10 90 0 > 1 2 0 1166548 7392 341652 0 0 8 18836 1028 56 0 21 43 36 > 1 2 0 994132 7556 509312 0 0 4 1696 1030 63 0 17 27 56 > 1 2 0 867732 7684 632264 0 0 4 2400 1033 65 0 12 27 60 > 0 3 0 817748 7732 680700 0 0 4 9632 1033 66 0 5 27 67 Ok, looks saner in the sense that now you seem to get no interrupts at all from your card. At least that matches the fact that you basically get no throughput either ;) So the previous vmstat was when there was a lot of network activity with some associated server going on too? So this same setup worked find for you with bonnie++ with a single disk? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/