Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O

[Julian Elischer]

Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:08:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > >
> > >   714 root     -14   0   123M 79192K inode    0:45 25.29% 25.29% vmware
> > >
> > > When this happens the whole machine freezes also.  Processes run, but
> > > new processes don't get forked.  The whole machine appears to be I/O
> > > bound.   (What's the 'inode' state?)
> > this sounds like a differnt starvation problem.
> > when it's happenning, what does 'iostat 1' show?
> > (how many transactions per second?)
> 
> It looks like below.

Looks like some way of clustering this might achieve a lot.

what does systat -vmstat or vmstat 1
show?
Better still, I guess we could do a linux-truss
and see what it's doing...


> Joe
> 
>       tty             ad0              fd0             cpu
>  tin tout  KB/t tps  MB/s   KB/t tps  MB/s  us ni sy in id
>    0  179  8.00  67  0.53   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  2 98
>    0   59  8.00  68  0.53   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  2 98
>    0   60  8.00  68  0.53   0.00   0  0.00   0  0  0  2 98
>    0   60  8.00  67  0.53   0.00   0  0.00   2  0  0  2 97

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