On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:12:02PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, David Chinner wrote: > > > Well, pdflush appears to be doing very little on both 2.6.18 and > > 2.6.20-rc3. In both cases kswapd is consuming 10-20% of a CPU and > > all of the pdflush threads combined (I've seen up to 7 active at > > once) use maybe 1-2% of cpu time. This occurs regardless of the > > dirty_ratio setting. > > That sounds a bit much for kswapd. How many nodes? Any cpusets in use?
It's an x86-64 box - an XE 240 - 4 core, 16GB RAM, single node, no cpusets. > A upper maximum on the number of pdflush threads exists at 8. Are these > multiple files or single file transfers? See the test case i posted - a single file write per filesystem, three filesystems being written to at once, all on different, unshared block devices. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
