This is starting to look more like question for the linux kernel mailing
list, or possibly the linux-mm mailing list. Looks like another virtual
memory system issue.
Steve
> Tad,
>
> Hmm, It looks like nfs3 wasn't working.
>
> I upgraded to 4.5.9, with the 4.5.9-xfs patches
> and now nfs3 works ok, however:
> (must have been the version of nfs-utils)
>
> I just copied a large file from the sgi server to this linux box
> (512m 1.4g Athlon) and the box got buried.
>
> Over a 100mb switched line a 3G file took 26 minutes, ok not spectacular.
>
> Load average was over 7, system cpu % was over 85%.
>
> The single processor on the origin 2000 (r10000) running nfsd was barely
> turning over.
>
> Terminal response was just barely usable on the linux box.
> (e.g. it took 4 min. to get top running in another console window)
>
> This was an ide drive but still...
>
> Adding to this a little later on...
> I did a little further stress testing
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=1M count=3000
> xfs=23 mins
> ext2=22 mins
> eliminating nfs and xfs
> same buried processor. It must be a kernel thing.
>
> kswapd and kupdated were the big cpu hogs, although
> there was never any swap used.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers, Gary
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Gary Orser , (406) 994-6451, orser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Montana State University
> Center for Computational Biology
> 1 Lewis Hall, Bozeman MT, 59717
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Tad Dolphay wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Tad,
> > >
> > > xfs-linux was the client, Irix the server.
> > >
> > Gary,
> >
> > Assuming you can use 4g files locally on the xfs-linux machine without
> > problems and can use 4g files locally on the Irix machine without problems
> > then I think a snoop from the Irix machine would still be useful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tad
> > > Cheers, Gary
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > Gary Orser , (406) 994-6451, orser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Montana State University
> > > Center for Computational Biology
> > > 1 Lewis Hall, Bozeman MT, 59717
> > >
> > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Tad Dolphay wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've installed linux 2.4.5, with xfs on a Suse 7.1 base install.
> > > > >
> > > > > Got xfs working as well as nfs3 between an Irix 6.5.13m system.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Gary,
> > > >
> > > > I assume xfs-linux is NFS server and Irix is NFS client? I've used 10g
> > > > files without problems. Maybe a snoop from the Irix side would tell us
> > > > something.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Tad
> > > >
> > > > > I can copy files < 2g, but get errors on large files > 4g.
> > > > > cannot stat 'somelargefile' Input/output error
> > > > >
> > > > > I've searched through the faq and group lists but can't
> > > > > find anything related.
> > > > >
> > > > > The only thing I haven't been able to try is kgcc and/or
> > > > > the egcs compiler. I can't find these for the Suse distro.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers, Gary
> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Gary Orser , (406) 994-6451, orser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Montana State University
> > > > > Center for Computational Biology
> > > > > 1 Lewis Hall, Bozeman MT, 59717
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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