Hello!
Yes seems the system is very loaded for some reason
> > sometimes a day) we get 100% usage on ksoftirqd/0 and following messages
in logs:
as all softirq's are run via ksoftirqd. That's still OK but why don't the
watchdog get any CPU share at all? Mismatch in priorities?
Herbert Xu writes:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:20:10PM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > [<c02396f9>] dev_queue_xmit+0xe0/0x203
> > > [<c0250de8>] ip_output+0x1e1/0x237
> > > [<c024f3f5>] ip_forward+0x181/0x1df
> > > [<c024e21a>] ip_rcv+0x40c/0x485
> > > [<c0239bd0>] netif_receive_skb+0x12f/0x165
> > > [<f885aa4c>] e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x389/0x410 [e1000]
> > > [<f885a1ca>] e1000_clean+0x94/0x12f [e1000]
> > > [<c0239d5a>] net_rx_action+0x69/0xf0
> > > [<c011a305>] __do_softirq+0x55/0xbd
> > > [<c011a39a>] do_softirq+0x2d/0x31
> > > [<c011a3f8>] local_bh_enable+0x5a/0x65
> > > [<c024a0a1>] rt_run_flush+0x5f/0x80
Normal for a router...
> Could you tell us the frequency of route updates on this machine?
> Route updates are pretty expensive especially when a large number
> of flows hits your machine right afterwards.
Yes flush is costly an unfortunly hard to avoid. We discussed this a
bit before...
> You can monitor this by running ip mon. You might just be getting
> bogus route updates causing unnecessary flushes to the routing cache.
Just sampled 10 min in one of routers with full 2 * (Full BGP). Well
remember Zebra/Quagga has just one set in kernel. Anyway during the
10 minutes I looked I got 4 (insertion/deletions)/second in average.
Cheers.
--ro
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