From: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Shared memory shmat/dt not working well in 2.5.x
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 17:10:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dnhefx9db8.fsf@magla.zg.iskon.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210081338.50495.baldrick@wanadoo.fr> (Duncan Sands's message of "Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:38:50 +0200")
Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> I also observed that other application I use occasionally - LXR (Linux
>> source cross referencing tool) - takes much longer to generate xref
>> database (which is in Berkeley DB files). It works in three passes,
>> where the last one, when it dumps symbols into DB, is interesting. In
>> 2.4 it finishes quickly (it uses 100% CPU, then occasionally syncs the
>> databases - heavy write traffic for a second - then continues), but
>> 2.5 has problems with it (it stucks writing to disk all the time, CPU
>> usage is minimal and process progresses very slowly). Andrew, if
>> you're interested I can send you some numbers to describe the case
>> better.
>
> Hmmm, are you using ext3? Changes to the meaning of yield sometimes
> make fsync go very slowly. This problem has been around since 2.5.28,
> and hasn't yet been fixed (As for a fix, Andrew Morton said "I'll sit tight for
> the while, see where shed_yield() behaviour ends up").
>
Yes, it's an ext3 partition, ordered mode. I don't have ext2 compiled
into kernel anymore. :)
Hm, if it's a problem with fsync() then that could explain slight
Oracle slowdown, too, as I think that Oracle is a heavy user of
fsync. But I don't know that for sure. I'll investigate further..
Regards,
--
Zlatko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-08 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 9:52 Shared memory shmat/dt not working well in 2.5.x Zlatko Calusic
2002-10-01 13:07 ` Alessandro Suardi
2002-10-01 13:09 ` [PATCH] " Hugh Dickins
2002-10-01 13:28 ` Alessandro Suardi
2002-10-01 13:46 ` Zlatko Calusic
2002-10-01 14:51 ` Alessandro Suardi
2002-10-01 14:59 ` Zlatko Calusic
2002-10-02 18:45 ` Zlatko Calusic
2002-10-08 11:22 ` Zlatko Calusic
2002-10-08 11:38 ` Duncan Sands
2002-10-08 15:10 ` Zlatko Calusic [this message]
2002-10-08 15:25 ` Duncan Sands
2002-10-01 13:37 ` Zlatko Calusic
2002-10-01 15:32 ` [PATCH] Oracle startup split_vma fix Hugh Dickins
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