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Re: performance degraded 2.4.8 -> 2.4.9?

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Subject: Re: performance degraded 2.4.8 -> 2.4.9?
From: Dan Yocum <yocum@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:38:40 -0600
Cc: xfs-list <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <3BF1A6F2.273B49C4@fnal.gov> <20011115095941.DB13.NEWSLETTER@teatime.com.tw>
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Tommy Wu wrote:
> 
> Dan Yocum <yocum@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > What happened between 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 that the disk I/O performance would
> > *dramatically* drop?  With 2.4.8 I'm getting ~34MB/s writes and ~160MB/s
> > reads.  As of 2.4.9 this has dropped to ~10MB/s writes and 80-100MB/s
> > reads.  That's pretty bad.  The problem was not fixed with 2.4.10 and is
> > still the same as of 2.4.13pre6 - I haven't checked the latest in a couple
> > weeks, maybe it's better?
> >
> > I've decided to drop back to 2.4.5 since 2.4.8 was regularly crashing the
> > machines, the "kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed." errors
> > seem to have gone away, and the performance is right up there.
> 
>    I've got the same problem in 2.4.8, 2.4.9, 2.4.10...  and plus a
>    xfs_force_shutdown problem in 2.4.9 in last month....
> 
>    I change my kernel to 2.4.8mdk from mandrank (base on -ac)... last month.
>    It work great for me now! Running on a P3 1G SMP system with 1G ram
>    for Oracle 9i.


I don't suppose you could take the system offline long enough to run a
bonnie++ test on it, could you?

Dan


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