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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:09:19 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Little research how rm -rf and tar kill server
Message-ID:  <1427731759.309823.247107417.308CD298@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <5519740A.1070902@artem.ru>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015, at 11:04, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> 30.03.2015 18:57, Mark Felder =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015, at 10:53, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> >> This is normal state, not under rm -rf
> >> Do you need it during  rm -rf  ?
> >>
> > No, but I wonder if changing the timer from LAPIC to HPET or possibly
> > one of the other timers makes the system more responsive under that
> > load. Would you mind testing that?
> >
> > You can switch the timer like this:
> >
> > sysctl kern.eventtimer.timer=3DHPET
> >
> > And then run some of your I/O tests
> >
>=20
> I see. I will test at night, when load goes down.
> I cannot say sure that's a right  way to dig, but i will test anything :)
>=20
> Just to remind: untar overloads the system, but untar + sync every 120s=20
> does not.
> That seems very strange to me.  I think the problem might be somewhere
> here.
>=20

I just heard from mav that there was a bottleneck in gmirror/graid with
regards to BIO_DELETE requests

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D280757



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