Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030256AbVKHUSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:18:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030265AbVKHUSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:18:48 -0500 Received: from web34112.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([66.163.178.110]:61581 "HELO web34112.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030256AbVKHUSs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:18:48 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Tj7m8GDB5GK/rPtHCMvZtmGzoHj9FZfhRaIaB2RTzeGoBw618AKWbhr80icQ7YLuuHmsYAhzJow4jLD6Q1b4zpuVcMLL7nrhHf3jS2QPeKHVPCF6tibeXH1wH95KxOMokav3n/pbAoEQTJOqfAfus7obJaRb0aa2jdm9exdAaew= ; Message-ID: <20051108201847.89115.qmail@web34112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 12:18:47 -0800 (PST) From: Kenny Simpson Subject: re: mmap over nfs leads to excessive system load To: Trond Myklebust Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1131480107.32482.48.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 954 Lines: 30 I knew I forgoet something important in the info: type nfs (rw,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,vers=3,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr -Kenny --- Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 11:25 -0800, Kenny Simpson wrote: > > Just another data point.... > > If I open the file with O_DIRECT.. not much changes: > > Hmm... Are you mounting using the -osync or -onoac options? Doing > synchronous writes will tend to slow down flushing considerably, and the > VM appears to be very fragile w.r.t. slow filesystems. > > Cheers, > Trond __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs - 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/