On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:55:56PM -0600, Aaron Kulbe wrote:
> [1.] SUMMARY: During rsync and heavy I/O operations, we experienced
> abnormally slow response times on the file server.
> ...
> [4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version): Linux version 2.6.8-24.14-bigsmp (
Try a recent kernel, both XFS and the VM have moved on in leaps
and bounds since 2.6.8 timeframe.
> I tried Christoph Hellwig's suggestion from
> http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=345 of increasing the value of
> /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes. I set the value to 1024. The results were
> the same. No change in performance, and errors persisted.
There were older kernel versions where that parameter was not
being honoured particularly well, I can't recall anymore if it
was 2.6.8 or not though - it may well have been.
cheers.
--
Nathan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
