Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:27:24 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O Message-ID: <20010208122724.A701@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <3A828C2C.F7CDA809@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800 References: <xzpsnlqmh0o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010207220443.19807J-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20010208113519.A789@tao.org.uk> <3A828C2C.F7CDA809@elischer.org>
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Josef Karthauser wrote:
> >
> > 714 root -14 0 123M 79192K inode 0:45 25.29% 25.29% vmware
> >
> > When this happens the whole machine freezes also. Processes run, but
> > new processes don't get forked. The whole machine appears to be I/O
> > bound. (What's the 'inode' state?)
> this sounds like a differnt starvation problem.
> when it's happenning, what does 'iostat 1' show?
> (how many transactions per second?)
It looks like below.
Joe
tty ad0 fd0 cpu
tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id
0 179 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 59 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 2 0 0 2 97
0 59 8.00 66 0.52 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 2 2 95
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 1 2 97
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 1 2 98
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 1 1 98
0 59 8.00 66 0.52 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
79 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 1 2 98
183 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 3 2 95
143 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 3 3 94
197 59 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 1 2 97
48 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
8 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 2 96
228 59 8.00 66 0.52 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 2 2 96
40 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 2 96
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 1 2 97
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 1 3 95
0 59 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 1 2 97
tty ad0 fd0 cpu
tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id
0 179 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 2 97
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 1 2 96
0 59 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 3 97
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 59 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 1 2 98
0 59 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 2 2 95
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 1 3 96
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 2 0 1 2 95
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 59 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 59 8.00 66 0.52 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 66 0.52 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 67 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
0 60 8.00 68 0.53 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 0 2 98
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