Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 04:58:17 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> 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: <3A8297E9.78B93F25@elischer.org> 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> <20010208122724.A701@tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> 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.
Looks like some way of clustering this might achieve a lot.
what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
show?
Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
and see what it's doing...
> 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
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