Re: I/O issues, iowait problems, 2.4 v 2.6

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 00:45:26 EST



On 10 Nov 2003, Paul Venezia wrote:
>
> I rebooted and shot these, starting 5 seconds before the cat:
>
> 0 0 0 1474524 7084 42420 0 0 0 0 1033 47 0 0 100 0
> 0 0 0 1474524 7084 42420 0 0 0 0 1031 38 0 0 100 0
> 0 0 0 1474524 7084 42420 0 0 0 0 1016 12 0 0 100 0
> 1 0 0 1373716 7184 140376 0 0 0 0 1020 14 0 10 90 0
> 1 2 0 1166548 7392 341652 0 0 8 18836 1028 56 0 21 43 36
> 1 2 0 994132 7556 509312 0 0 4 1696 1030 63 0 17 27 56
> 1 2 0 867732 7684 632264 0 0 4 2400 1033 65 0 12 27 60
> 0 3 0 817748 7732 680700 0 0 4 9632 1033 66 0 5 27 67

Ok, looks saner in the sense that now you seem to get no interrupts at all
from your card. At least that matches the fact that you basically get no
throughput either ;)

So the previous vmstat was when there was a lot of network activity with
some associated server going on too?

So this same setup worked find for you with bonnie++ with a single disk?

Linus

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