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Date:      Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:26:27 +0300
From:      Alexey Popov <lol@chistydom.ru>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load
Message-ID:  <47373B43.9060406@chistydom.ru>
In-Reply-To: <47349A17.3080806@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi.

Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> In the "good" case you are getting a much higher interrupt rate but 
>>> with the data you provided I can't tell where from.  You need to run 
>>> vmstat -i at regular intervals (e.g. every 10 seconds for a minute) 
>>> during the "good" and "bad" times, since it only provides counters 
>>> and an average rate over the uptime of the system.
>>
>> Now I'm running 10-process lighttpd and the problem became no so big.
>>
>> I collected interrupt stats and it shows no relation beetween 
>> ionterrupts and slowdowns. Here is it:
>> http://83.167.98.162/gprof/intr-graph/
>>
>> Also I have similiar statistics on mutex profiling and it shows 
>> there's no problem in mutexes. 
>> http://83.167.98.162/gprof/mtx-graph/mtxgifnew/
>>
>> I have no idea what else to check.

> I don't know what this graph is showing me :)  When precisely is the 
> system behaving poorly?
Take a look at "Disk Load %" picture at 
http://83.167.98.162/gprof/intr-graph/

At ~ 17:00, 03:00-04:00, 13:00-14:00, 00:30-01:30, 11:00-13:00 it shows 
peaks of disk activity which really never happen. As I said in the 
beginning of the thread in this "peak" moments disk becomes slow and 
vmstat shows 100% disk load while performing < 10 tps. Other grafs at 
this page shows that there's no relation to interrupts rate of amr or em 
device. You advised me to check it.

When I was using single-process lighttpd the problem was much harder as 
you can see at http://83.167.98.162/gprof/graph/ . At first picture on 
this page you can see disk load peaks at 18:00 and 15:00 which leaded to 
decreasing network output because disk was too slow.

Back in this thread we suspected UMA mutexes. In order to check it I 
collected mutex profiling stats and draw graphs over time and they also 
didn't show anything interesting. All mutex graphs were smooth while 
disk load peaks. http://83.167.98.162/gprof/mtx-graph/mtxgifnew/

With best regards,
Alexey Popov



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