saeed bishara schrieb:
> Hi,
> I have a performance issue with my system that runs samba server, once
> in a while (6 seconds) I see that the throughput falls almost to to
> zero when doing read for large file. I'm running kernel 2.6.22.10. I
> don't see this issue when using kernel 2.6.12.
>
> when observing the activity leds on my sata controller, I see that it
> get off for about 1 second meaning no commands sent to the HDD for
> that long time. I used the blktrace in order to have a look into the
> IOs, and found that the system really stops sending commands for long
> periods, here is the section of the blkparse that shows this problem:
> 8,2 0 12747 5.550000000 328 D R 108068834 + 512 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12748 5.550000000 328 D R 108069346 + 512 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12749 5.550000000 328 D R 108069858 + 512 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12750 5.550000000 328 D R 108070370 + 512 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12751 5.550000000 328 U N [smbd] 5
> 8,2 0 12752 5.550000000 0 C R 108068834 + 512 [0]
> 8,2 0 12753 5.560000000 0 C R 108069346 + 512 [0]
> 8,2 0 12754 5.570000000 0 C R 108069858 + 512 [0]
> 8,2 0 12755 5.570000000 0 C R 108070370 + 512 [0]
> 8,2 0 12756 6.570000000 0 C R 108066786 + 512 [0]
> 8,2 0 12757 6.590000000 328 Q R 108070882 + 8 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12758 6.590000000 328 G R 108070882 + 8 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12759 6.590000000 328 P N [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12760 6.590000000 328 I R 108070882 + 8 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12761 6.590000000 328 Q R 108070890 + 8 [smbd]
> 8,2 0 12762 6.590000000 328 M R 108070890 + 8 [smbd]
>
> any idea how to fix this issue?
Not really.
I've had a similar looking problem with a md raid-1 set of harddisks
running 2.6.18. md0_raid1 took every 10 seconds all of the cpu blocking other
stuff on the machine for some other 2 secons doing no disk writes.
$ uname -a
Linux rio 2.6.22.9 #1 Mon Oct 1 19:48:54 CEST 2007 i686 pentium3 i386 GNU/Linux
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0c.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G100 [Productiva] AGP (rev 01)
The raid is on the Promise PDC20269
$ mdadm --misc --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Sat Oct 29 20:51:41 2005
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 293049600 (279.47 GiB 300.08 GB)
Used Dev Size : 293049600 (279.47 GiB 300.08 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Tue Oct 30 19:20:12 2007
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
UUID : b2d7f60d:008fa0df:136207f1:ae0e7a9e
Events : 0.432306
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 33 1 0 active sync /dev/hde1
1 34 1 1 active sync /dev/hdg1
I didn't dare to report a bug against the old kernel. I moved to
2.6.22.9 and the problem disappeared...
Any ways to debug that (non-intrusive on a production machine)?
Regards,
Clemens Koller
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