From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 15 12:36: 9 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776FA37B405; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 82A2514C3F; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:36:01 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Matt Dillon Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c References: <200110121817.f9CIHYU38714@freefall.freebsd.org> <200110122330.f9CNU1u36917@earth.backplane.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 Oct 2001 21:36:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200110122330.f9CNU1u36917@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon writes: > > Does this explain why my development box (with FreeBSD, NetBSD and > > XFree86 repo mirrors and about three full FreeBSD source trees checked > > out) has a shitload of FFS nodes and spends 8% of its time running > > syncer, resulting in crappy interrupt latency? Or is that a different > > bug? If this is the one, I'm immensely grateful that you fixed it. > Possibly. Apply the patch and find out, I'd really like to know if it > makes a difference. No difference. 24 hours' uptime, patch applied and all file systems mounted async: des@des /usr/src% vmstat -m | grep FFS 256 UFS mount, FFS node, newblk, IpFw/IpAcct, routetbl, ifaddr, BPF, FFS node 71741 17936K 17938K 85338K 1341645 0 0 256 and running sync(8) causes the machine to hang and ignore keystrokes and mouse movements for about a second, just like before. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message