Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-20 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Thanks, Ross, JohnS and Lamar for your kind responses. It turned out my friend is using 7200 RPM disk for his write-lots-of-little-files activity so we're looking at upgrading that to 15000 RPM or getting him a FusionIO memory card. Thank you! Aleksey On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Lamar Owe

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, October 18, 2010 09:25:41 pm Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on > Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second > freeze) every 5-10 seconds. "top" showed flush-253:0 > process at the moment of the freeze. [snip] > He a

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-20 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:34 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Still seeing the glitch every 5-20 secs after remounting with "commit=6000". > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > > > You could also reduce the dirty interval in sysctl so it flushes sooner > > therefore f

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Still seeing the glitch every 5-20 secs after remounting with "commit=6000". > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> >> You could also reduce the dirty interval in sysctl so it flushes sooner >> therefore flushes

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
"uname -a" shows: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 12:50:31 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Still seeing the glitch every 5-20 secs after remounting with "commit=6000". On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > You could also reduce the dirty interval in sysctl so it flushes sooner > therefore flushes less data each time. OK. It's worth a shot. Any idea what the defau

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Toby Bluhm > wrote: >> Ext3 filesystem? Maybe altering the commit option at mount time would help: >> >> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt#49 > > Good one, Tony! We'll

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Ext3 filesystem? Maybe altering the commit option at mount time would help: > > http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt#49 Good one, Tony! We'll try that. Thanks!! Aleksey _

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Toby Bluhm
On 10/19/2010 3:34 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, JohnS wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:25 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: >>> Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on >>> Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second >>>

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:25 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: >> Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on >> Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second >> freeze) every 5-10 seconds.  "top" showed flush-253:0 >>

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-18 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:25 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on > Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second > freeze) every 5-10 seconds. "top" showed flush-253:0 > process at the moment of the freeze. And what is the