Re: slow performance on disk/network i/o full speed afterdrop_caches

[Wu Fengguang]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 05:01:03PM +0800, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> 
> >> sync&&  echo 3>/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches&&  sleep 2&&  echo 0
> >>> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> 
> Another way to get it working again is to stop some processes. Could be 
> mysql or apache or php fcgi doesn't matter. Just free some memory. 
> Although there are already 5GB free.

Is it a NUMA machine and _every_ node has enough free pages?

        grep . /sys/devices/system/node/node*/vmstat

Thanks,
Fengguang

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