Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/5] perf core: Support overwrite ring buffer

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > fomalhaut:~/go/src/github.com/google/syzkaller> ps aux | grep -i syz
> > mingo      1374  0.0  0.0 118476  2376 pts/2    S+   18:23   0:00 grep --color=auto -i syz
> >
> > and with no kernel messages in dmesg - and with a fully functional system.
> >
> > I'm running the 16-task load on a 120 CPU system - should I increase it to 120?
> > Does the code expect to saturate the system?
> 
> No, it does not expect to saturate the system. Set "procs" to 480, or
> something like that.

Does not seem to help much:

fomalhaut:~> vmstat 10
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ------cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st

 1  0      0 257465904 219940 4736092    0    0     0   102 16022 4396  0  1 99  0  0
 2  0      0 257452144 220496 4755052    0    0     2  3649 14286 4627  0  1 99  0  0
 2  0      0 257473408 221188 4770824    0    0    15  1898 17175 4474  0  1 99  0  0

Only around 1% system utilization. Should I go for 1,000 or more? :)

Peter, do you experience with running syz-kaller on larger CPU count Intel 
systems?

Thanks,

	Ingo