Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: > This is quibbling. On heavy loads on networ, disk et cetera, isn't there > always and also a CPU bound load? No. Properly written software blocks when waiting on network or disk I/O, and doesn't sit there spinning in a busy-wait consuming CPU un

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/07/11 09:27, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 06/07/2011 21:11 Nathan Whitehorn said the following: On 07/06/11 13:00, Steve Kargl wrote: AFAICT, it is a cpu affinity issue. If I launch n+1 MPI images on a system with n cpus/cores, then 2 (and sometimes 3) images are stuck on a cpu and those 2 (or

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On 07/07/11 09:04, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/07/2011 06:11 Steve Kargl said the following: Unfortunately, I have neither the brain capacity and time nor the money to fix the issue. To solve OP's problem in the short, the simplest solution may be to switch to 4BSD. Let's face, ULE is not a silv

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-07 Thread Case van Rij
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On 07/07/11 06:29, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Hartmann, O. >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 07/06/11 21:36, Steve Kargl wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:18:35PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >>>