"Dan A. Dickey" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This problem has now been persistent enough in the last few kernels
> I've run that I've subscribed (once again) to the linux-kernel list
> and would like to report it.
> I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r9.
>
> When the system is compiling something, the state typically
> stays at about 85-95% system time. This just really does not
> seem right for my workload, and additionally only appeared
> a few releases ago (sorry, I didn't bother to track it - I thought
> it might go away in a release or two; but it has not).
>
> Here is a little output of 'vmstat 5' when this is happening:
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
> ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us
> sy id wa
> 1 0 12752 61548 57252 211092 0 0 2 50 1083 810 11
> 89 0 0
> 1 0 12752 57572 57320 211160 0 0 0 63 1089 683 9
> 91 0 0
> 1 0 12752 63288 57328 211220 0 0 8 39 1084 765 11
> 89 0 0
> 1 0 12752 60648 57348 211200 0 0 0 56 1086 647 6
> 94 0 0
> 1 0 12752 54972 57348 211200 0 0 0 3 1079 659 8
> 92 0 0
> 1 0 12752 62284 57348 211268 0 0 4 53 1087 807 17
> 83 0 0
> 1 0 12752 59400 57356 211328 0 0 0 34 1222 1919 17
> 83 0 0
(grr, wordwrapping.)
- Check that your disks are running in DMA mode (if they're IDE) (with hdparm)
- See what `time make' says
- Generate a kernel profile (See Documentation/basic_profiling.txt)
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