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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>
To: zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xmm2 - monitor Linux MM active/inactive lists graphically
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:14:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDAB344.CE25D5D@denise.shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dnr8rqu30x.fsf@magla.zg.iskon.hr>


> block: 1024 slots per queue, batch=341
> 
> Wrote 600.00 MB in 71 seconds -> 8.39 MB/s (7.5 %CPU)
> 
> Still very spiky, and during the write disk is uncapable of doing any
> reads. IOW, no serious application can be started before writing has
> finished. Shouldn't we favour reads over writes? Or is it just that
> the elevator is not doing its job right, so reads suffer?
>
>    procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
>  r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
>  0  1  1      0   3596    424 453416   0   0     0 40468  189   508   2   2  96

341*127K = ~40M.

Batch is too high. It doesn't explain why reads get delayed so much, anyway.

Bye.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-27 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-24 10:42 Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-24 14:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-25  0:25   ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-25  4:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-25  4:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-25 12:48         ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-25 16:31           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-25 17:33             ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-26  9:45             ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-26 10:08             ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-26 14:39               ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-26 14:57                 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-26 15:01                   ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-26 16:04                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-26 16:57                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-26 17:19                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-28 17:30                       ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-28 17:34                         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-28 17:48                           ` Alan Cox
2001-10-28 17:59                             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-28 18:22                               ` Alan Cox
2001-10-28 18:46                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-28 19:29                                   ` Alan Cox
2001-10-28 18:56                               ` Andrew Morton
2001-10-30  8:56                               ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-30  9:26                                 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-10-28 19:13                         ` Barry K. Nathan
2001-10-28 21:42                           ` Jonathan Morton
2001-11-02  5:52                         ` Zlatko's I/O slowdown status Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-02 20:14                           ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-11-02 20:26                             ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-02 21:22                               ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-11-02 20:57                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-11-02 23:23                             ` Simon Kirby
2001-10-27 13:14               ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2001-10-28  5:05                 ` xmm2 - monitor Linux MM active/inactive lists graphically Mike Fedyk
2001-10-25  9:07       ` Zlatko Calusic

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