Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264670AbUD1H3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:29:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264680AbUD1H3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:29:21 -0400 Received: from web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.94.65]:5281 "HELO web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264670AbUD1H3T (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:29:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20040428072918.56419.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:29:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Phy Prabab Subject: Re: pdflush eating a lot of CPU on heavy NFS I/O To: Andrew Morton , busterbcook@yahoo.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040427230203.1e4693ac.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 1614 Lines: 54 If you guys could please either cc or keep this on the mailing list I would greatly appreciate it. I am currently planning to deploy a dual Xeon FS with 2.6.5+akpm-mm6 and would like to know what the issue is that Brent is seeing. Thanks! --- Andrew Morton wrote: > Brent Cook wrote: > > > > Running any kernel from the 2.6.6-rc* series > (and a few previous > > -mm*'s), > > It's a shame this wasn't reported earlier. > > > the pdflush process starts using near 100% CPU > indefinitely after > > a few minutes of initial NFS traffic, as far as I > can tell. > > Please confirm that the problem is observed on the > NFS client and not the > NFS server? I'll assume the client. > > What other filesystems are in use on the client? > > Please describe the NFS mount options and the number > of CPUs and the amount > of memory in the machine. And please send me your > .config, off-list. > > Thanks. > - > 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/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover - 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/