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Date:      Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:21:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds
Message-ID:  <2090844362.1227850.1312147278961.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4E35ACDD.90303@FreeBSD.org>

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Abdriy Gapon wrote:
> on 31/07/2011 22:03 Rick Macklem said the following:
> > Ok, so if the scheduler spin lock is being held too long, what could
> > cause this, if it isn't a scheduler bug?
> >
> > I can't think of how NFS would affect this beyond causing a heavy
> > I/O
> > load, but if there is some way it does, I suppose I need to know
> > what
> > that is?
> 
> I think I've already referred to the thread on stable@.
> This is currently being investigated.
> 
> P.S.
> Just a pure illustration you can grep for thread_lock to see where
> else outside
> schedulers the sched locks are taken.
> --
Yes, I see what you mean (ie. it's all over the place).

Sorry about the noise, rick



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