From: Bryan O'Sullivan Subject: Re: 2.4.19 NFSALL performance oddity Date: 05 Oct 2002 13:55:16 -0700 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1033851316.29937.37.camel@plokta.s8.com> References: <5CA6F03EF05E0046AC5594562398B91653B9C0@poexmb3.conoco.net> <1033793310.4626.0.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Heflin, Roger A." , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from server.s8.com ([66.77.12.139]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17xvxP-0000Aw-00 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 13:55:27 -0700 To: Trond Myklebust In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 09:18, Trond Myklebust wrote: > I'm seeing major slowdowns, mainly on NFS reads, when I enable > CONFIG_HIGHMEM. I haven't yet had time to investigate this. I'll try to take a look on a local system in the next few days. Are you or Roger using Jens Axboe's block-highmem patch or any of the drivers it touches? Knowing this should help control for at least one variable.