From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 8 4:58:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from syncopation-01.iinet.net.au (syncopation-01.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7560037B4EC for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:58:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9349 invoked by uid 666); 8 Feb 2001 13:05:15 -0000 Received: from reggae-13-123.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.79.123) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 8 Feb 2001 13:05:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3A8297E9.78B93F25@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 04:58:17 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Robert Watson , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Brian Somers , Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O References: <20010208113519.A789@tao.org.uk> <3A828C2C.F7CDA809@elischer.org> <20010208122724.A701@tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message