[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2011-01-13 Thread Jeremy Foshee
resetting this bug to Fix Released. Please file a new bug if you feel you are experiencing a similar issue. Thanks! ~JFo ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-09-07 Thread DLHDavidLH
default I/O scheduler should be change from CFQ to deadline OR Noop https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/631871 -- Make a GUI to change the Default I/O scheduler https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/632562 -- el

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-09-07 Thread DLHDavidLH
Noop I/O scheduler is good with both SSD (solid-state-drives) and HDD (Hard disk drive) -- from my research (SSD) and testing (HDD) -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-09-07 Thread DLHDavidLH
applet / app / GUI to change I/O scheduler -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-09-07 Thread DLHDavidLH
- - idea - - ubuntu could make simple applet to change i/o scheduler. And later on users depending on their workloads can choose whatever they want. -- * CFQ I/O scheduler * Noop I/O scheduler * Deadline I/O scheduler * Anticipatory I/O scheduler

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-09-06 Thread DLHDavidLH
deadline I/O scheduler is good with both SSD (solid-state-drives) and HDD (Hard disk drive) -- from my research (SSD) and testing (HDD) -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-09-06 Thread DLHDavidLH
i think that the default I/O scheduler should be change from CFQ to deadline - i have test CFQ and deadline I/O scheduler on a DELL Latitude 120L with 1GB of RAM and 40GB hard drive with EXT4 filesystem and GPT with both I/O schedulers

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-08-27 Thread Tim Gardner
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) => (unassigned) -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-01-19 Thread ktp
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2010-01-08 Thread ktp
My system runs on karmic. uname -a: Linux kplaptop 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Copying 155GB data to external usb drive with NTFS and cfq scheduler starts with around 30MB/s and drops to 9MB/s after transfering 10 to 15 GB and slows down to 2MB/s

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-10-25 Thread Daniel Hahler
This happened in: linux (2.6.31-12.39) karmic; urgency=low and references this bug: [ Tim Gardner ] [...] * [Config] Set default I/O scheduler back to CFQ for desktop flavours - LP: #381300 Tim, what's the reason? -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-10-25 Thread José Luis Ricón
Why is cfq default again? -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.co

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-09-29 Thread Johan Kiviniemi
Indeed, there’s bug #436342 about NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS. -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-09-28 Thread Rocko
After seeing a discussion at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/19/288, I tried the patch to disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS on 2.6.31-1 [ie change kernel/sched_features.h to include SCHED_FEAT(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 0) instead of SCHED_FEAT(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS, 1)]. It made a huge difference desktop responsiveness

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-09-22 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.31-10.35 --- linux (2.6.31-10.35) karmic; urgency=low [ Amit Kucheria ] * Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH [ Andy Whitcroft ] * [Config] Enable CONFIG_USB_GADGET_DUMMY_HCD * remove the tlsup driver * remove lmpcm logitech d

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-09-22 Thread Tim Gardner
It seems the CFQ scheduler has some issues even with SSDs, so I'm gonna experiment with changing the default to DEADLINE in order to facilitate the boot process (where speed is king). You can always change your I/O scheduler setting by writing to /sys/block/*/queue/scheduler. ** Changed in: linux

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-07-09 Thread Andrea Bravetti
Jim, thanks for your reply! I alredy use dd up to bs=1M, but never more than 1M... I'm going to test it with 2.6.31 as soon as possible, but I can't do it now because I need vmware at work (but this is another issue...). -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-07-08 Thread Jim Lieb
@Andrea, your report is closely related to some other reports including #343371 and #131094. See my comment and request at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/131094/comments/235. In your case, there are (potentially) two issues. First, there is the latency under I/O load and, se

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-07-01 Thread Andrea Bravetti
I asked to remove comment 13 since it is completely wrong, but it's still there. As I saw "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging..." I start thinking "I can't understand what's happened, so I'll send it and someone will read it"... Now, It was caused by umount and I can't understand why, it was not

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-25 Thread Andrea Bravetti
Yesterday I was copying (really trying to copy) 78 GB of data from a disk to another one. Source: Caviar WD2000BB-22GUA0, a 200GB PATA disk. USB2.0 to IDE adapter: EBL35U2 ext2 partition... Dest: my internal WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0. ext3 partition... The system become slow as the copy start, as us

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-17 Thread Leann Ogasawara
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-14 Thread Andrea Bravetti
What described in 343371 was another problem and I had that one too... I'm not too lucky... I resolved it adding my hd (WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0) in the NCQ blacklist in drivers/ata/libata-core.c and now I can read very big files from the disk without any problem... However, the visible slowdown us

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-11 Thread Andrea Bravetti
Looking around I found this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/343371 He talk about reading big files, so I make some test and I found out that I have this problem too, even with noop: This time (just reading a big file from a sata disk, not using a pendrive) the system b

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-04 Thread Andrea Bravetti
Again: this time I simultaneously wrote two 3GB files on top af an ext3 fs on top of a 8GB pendrive, ... -- noop -- elapsed: 11' 52", high iowait but no system slowdown, it's quite good. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 8.01

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-04 Thread Andrea Bravetti
This is another test: this time I wrote a 6GB file on top af an ext3 fs on top of a 8GB pendrive... This 8GB pendrive is slightly faster than the other one... -- noop -- elapsed: 10' 38", no slowdown, all good... avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %i

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-03 Thread Andrea Bravetti
On my notebook (fujitsu-siemens amilopro v3505): writing large file on a pendrive: -- noop -- elapsed: 19' 31" avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 4.770.00 14.39 49.160.00 35.82 no slowdown, all good... -

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-03 Thread Andrea Bravetti
Andy, yesterday when I was at home after your message I tried to test every scheduler also recording a lot of stat on memory and cpu usage... Quite a waste of time, but it should be usefull... Well, not only I got no problem with CFQ, but it also performed better than other in almost every case,

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-02 Thread Andrea Bravetti
> Have you tried any of the other schedulers other than noop elevator=as work quite well in my case, don't know about elevator=deadline but I can test it... > ...noop is unlikely to be the correct choice for rotating media. May be it's not the fastest choice, but it work and doesn't cause sy

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-02 Thread Andy Whitcroft
This is a real kernel bug moving to the linux package. ** Package changed: linux-meta (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-02 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Have you tried any of the other schedulers other than noop and cfq? It would be good to have results for all of them as noop is unlikely to be the correct choice for rotating media. -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-02 Thread Andrea Bravetti
If you can't change the default please consider the possibility of doing (automatically) something like this with any pendrive or ssd disk: echo noop > /sys/block/sdX/queue/scheduler No one here has this problem? -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-06-02 Thread Andrea Bravetti
** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-image I had many performance problems using a usb pendrive: writing large files cause a system slowdown sometimes unacceptable. I performed several tests and in the end the culprit was found to be the CFQ scheduler which is used by

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation

2009-05-29 Thread Andrea Bravetti
I'm not the only one that prefer noop: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/26/116 Nor the only one that has problems: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/14/198 ** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-image I had many performance problems using a usb pendrive: writing large files cause a

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation with very slow devices

2009-05-29 Thread Andrea Bravetti
I tested it in a lot of different scenarios and now I think it is not related to "writing a lot of data on slow devices" but just "moving a lot of data"... Simply I think CFQ does not work well and must be replaced. ** Summary changed: - elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation with very slow de

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation with very slow devices

2009-05-28 Thread Andrea Bravetti
** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-image I had many performance problems using a usb pendrive: writing large files cause a system slowdown sometimes unacceptable. I performed several tests and in the end the culprit was found to be the CFQ scheduler which is used by

[Bug 381300] Re: elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation with very slow devices

2009-05-28 Thread Andrea Bravetti
** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-image I had many performance problems using a usb pendrive: writing large files cause a system slowdown sometimes unacceptable. I performed several tests and in the end the culprit was found to be the CFQ scheduler which is used by