* Slow Disk I/O
@ 2010-05-28 18:34 Brian D. McGrew
2010-05-29 0:01 ` Robert Hancock
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From: Brian D. McGrew @ 2010-05-28 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Good morning All!
I¹m running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 on a Dell T5500 with 3GB || 12GB or RAM. I¹m
running a 2.6.18-128.el5 kernel. There is a 500GB SATA drive connected to
the onboard SATA controller. I can reproduce this problem with CentOS 5.4
i386 on the Dell T5500, T5400 and Optiplex 740¹s.
So now, on to the problem... In our software, we¹re reading in 5MP image
files in the neighborhood of 500 to 1500 files at a time. Just a simple
for() loop, open, read, close... Nothing fancy...
When I have 3GB of RAM in the system, life is good.. Each read takes 8 to
10ms... This is a good thing!
If I bump the memory up to 12GB, all of the reads are now taking 150 to
200ms.
My default, va.swappines to set to 60... If I decrease this number, the
problem gets much worse. If I up va.swappines to 100, the problem gets a
little better, but not a whole lot.
What should I be looking at???
-b
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* Re: Slow Disk I/O
2010-05-28 18:34 Slow Disk I/O Brian D. McGrew
@ 2010-05-29 0:01 ` Robert Hancock
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Robert Hancock @ 2010-05-29 0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brian D. McGrew; +Cc: linux-kernel
On 05/28/2010 12:34 PM, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Good morning All!
>
> I¹m running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 on a Dell T5500 with 3GB || 12GB or RAM. I¹m
> running a 2.6.18-128.el5 kernel. There is a 500GB SATA drive connected to
> the onboard SATA controller. I can reproduce this problem with CentOS 5.4
> i386 on the Dell T5500, T5400 and Optiplex 740¹s.
>
> So now, on to the problem... In our software, we¹re reading in 5MP image
> files in the neighborhood of 500 to 1500 files at a time. Just a simple
> for() loop, open, read, close... Nothing fancy...
>
> When I have 3GB of RAM in the system, life is good.. Each read takes 8 to
> 10ms... This is a good thing!
>
> If I bump the memory up to 12GB, all of the reads are now taking 150 to
> 200ms.
>
> My default, va.swappines to set to 60... If I decrease this number, the
> problem gets much worse. If I up va.swappines to 100, the problem gets a
> little better, but not a whole lot.
>
> What should I be looking at???
Can you post the dmesg output and the contents of /proc/mtrr?
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