Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:44:08 -0700 Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:You're probably correct on that model. However, it all depends on the actual workload. Are people who actually have large-CPU (>256) systems actually running fork()-heavy things like webservers on them, or are they running things like database servers and computations, which tend to have persistent processes?It may well be mostly as you say - the large-CPU systems not running the fork() heavy jobs. Sooner or later, someone will want to run a fork()-heavy job on a large-CPU system. On a 1024 CPU system, it would apparently take just 14 exits/sec/CPU to hit this bottleneck, if Jay's number of 14000 applied. Chris Sturdivant's reply is reasonable -- we'll hit it sooner or later, and deal with it then.I agree, and I'm viewing this as blocking the taskstats merge. Because if this _is_ a problem then it's a big one because fixing it will be intrusive, and might well involve userspace-visible changes. The only ways I can see of fixing the problem generally are to either a) throw more CPU(s) at stats collection: allow userspace to register for "stats generated by CPU N", then run a stats collection daemon on each CPU or
Clearly this approach (or the per-cpuset as Paul suggested) can solve large-CPU system issues. As technology advances, this _WILL_ become a problem sooner or later. However, taskstats header carries a version number. Would a change like this too intrusive to add to a later version? Regards, - jay
b) make the kernel recognise when it's getting overloaded and switch to some degraded mode where it stops trying to send all the data to userspace - just send a summary, or a "we goofed" message or something.
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