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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 15:30:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serious performance issue with 2.2.5-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.971120145955.23652X-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199711202155.QAA03288@dyson.iquest.net>

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Hmmm, this patch fails either way I apply it.

Can somebody mail me the 1.104.2.3 rev of this file?  I tried to get to
ftp.freebsd.org, but it's unavailable.

Or the cvs command to extract it, my permutations have been less than
successful getting the right version, although I have a cvs tree from
cvsupd handy.


 

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:

> Jaye Mathisen said:
> > 
> > 
> > I upgraded my web server to 2.2.5 from 2.2.2-stable, dated sometime in
> > July.  
> > 
> > Big mistake.
> > 
> > The only update to take place was the make buildworld, make installworld,
> > no other configuration files were modified, nor any changes to startup
> > scripts, etc.
> > 
> > I now get these weird pauses where everything on the machine just freezes
> > for 30-40 seconds, sometimes longer.  NFS is compiled in, but not in use.
> > 
> > The system was a web server, and was happily serving up several hundred
> > domains.  Now with the upgrade, I'll be lucky to keep them.  Not good.
> > 
> > It's a Super Micro P6, 384MB RAM, 2 SCSI disks off a bus-logic controller.
> > 
> > Any ideas appreciated.  I have built a new kernel from sources supped
> > 11/7, but it doesn't seem to be any better.
> > 
> Try this patch.  The change in vfs_bio from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 appears to be
> incorrect, and subverts part of the functionality of what getnewbuf is
> supposed to do.  (Sorry, the patch might be reversed.)
> 
> 
> Index: sys/kern/vfs_bio.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /local/home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.104.2.7
> retrieving revision 1.104.2.3
> diff -C2 -r1.104.2.7 -r1.104.2.3
> *** vfs_bio.c	1997/09/01 23:23:08	1.104.2.7
> --- vfs_bio.c	1997/02/13 08:17:18	1.104.2.3
> ***************
> *** 889,896 ****
>   		/* wait for a free buffer of any kind */
>   		needsbuffer = 1;
> ! 		do
> ! 			tsleep(&needsbuffer, (PRIBIO + 1) | slpflag, "newbuf",
> ! 			    slptimeo);
> ! 		while (needsbuffer);
>   		return (0);
>   	}
> --- 872,877 ----
>   		/* wait for a free buffer of any kind */
>   		needsbuffer = 1;
> ! 		tsleep(&needsbuffer,
> ! 			(PRIBIO + 1) | slpflag, "newbuf", slptimeo);
>   		return (0);
>   	}
> 
> 
> -- 
> John
> dyson@freebsd.org
> jdyson@nc.com
> 




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