From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 8 4:27:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684B837B401; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:27:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id AC9C5324B; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:27:24 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:27:24 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Julian Elischer 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 Message-ID: <20010208122724.A701@tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Julian Elischer , Robert Watson , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Brian Somers , Bruce Evans , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010208113519.A789@tao.org.uk> <3A828C2C.F7CDA809@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A828C2C.F7CDA809@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > >=20 > > 714 root -14 0 123M 79192K inode 0:45 25.29% 25.29% vmware > >=20 > > 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 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqCkKwACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZXKACeIHaYQRyE7ReyHeoY9J4rFxJm MBAAoMP7fiFRqjV00Q7Rcc5mXHGPRsGM =SBRa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message