[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2014-01-08 Thread Doug Smythies
After a month, and off course, I checked that the issue was still present with an up to date system when I added notes to this bug report a couple of hours ago, right? Well, due to incompetence on my part, I was not running the current 14.04 kernel, when I thought I was. This issue is fixed when

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2014-01-08 Thread Doug Smythies
The issue is that all of those kernels work, the issue does not appear until the kernel configuration changes between saucy and trusty, as mentioned in my original posting. Without even knowing a good starting point, I tried a kernel bi-section, but with the "new configuration" and went back as fa

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-12-05 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Can you test the following kernels and report back? We are looking for the first kernel version that exhibits this bug: v3.8 final: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.8-raring v3.9 final: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.9-saucy v3.10 final: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-12-05 Thread Doug Smythies
@ Joseph Salisbury: Thank you for the suggestions. I would like to try to bisect the kernel. I am setup with GIT for my kernel.org version of the kernel. I have tried to bisect the kernel 3 times before, and succeeded once. I will have to study GIT again to remember how to do anything beyond "git

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-12-03 Thread Joseph Salisbury
We could also perform a kernel bisect to identify the issue that introduced this issue. Do you happen to know the last kernel version that did not exhibit the bug? If not, I can list out some prior kernel versions with their links for testing. -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-12-03 Thread Joseph Salisbury
This issue appears to be an upstream bug, since you tested the latest upstream kernel. Would it be possible for you to open an upstream bug report[0]? That will allow the upstream Developers to examine the issue, and may provide a quicker resolution to the bug. Please follow the instructions on th

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-12-01 Thread Doug Smythies
I tried the Ubuntu kernel 3.13RC2, and the CPU user, sys, idle, and wait information making no sense at all issue remains. As I see it now, if there is a fb0 device, then the issue will exist: doug@test-smy:~$ ls -l /dev/fb0 crw-rw 1 root video 29, 0 Dec 1 08:25 /dev/fb0 If there is not a f

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-30 Thread Doug Smythies
I have isolated the kernel configuration differences down to: doug@v32-serv03:~/kernel/linux-3.12.0$ diff config_def config_05 781c781 < CONFIG_X86_SYSFB=y --- > # CONFIG_X86_SYSFB is not set 4869c4869 < CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y --- > # CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT is not set 4900c4900 < CONFI

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-27 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: "various delays on vstat - good config" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1254920/+attachment/3918412/+files/vmstat_loop_good.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-27 Thread Doug Smythies
I noticed some differences with the output of vmstat depending on the delay parameter. The attachment is a loop of vmstat command for delay = 1 to 50 in steps of 1. In a moment I will add the same thing but with the "good" kernel configuration. I have been trying to create a 14.04 i386 VM on my g

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-26 Thread Doug Smythies
Yes, I already tried kernel 3.13RC1 a couple of days ago, and it was the same. I tried the one from the Ubuntu kernel PPA, not the one directly from kernel.org (as I mentioned in an earlier post, I can not compile the kernel on this computer). I tried many many kernels in an attempt to isolate the

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-26 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Can you see if this is also an issue with the upstream 3.13-rc1 kernel: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13-rc1-trusty/ ** Tags removed: kernel-key ** Tags added: kernel-da-key -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
apport-collect has never worked for me on server computers. I end up in some mess with my putty SSH connection and have never been able to figure it out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
To clarify, I am suggesting that the reported numbers are incorrect, not that there is some strange new loads going on. I did many tests with disk I/O and CPU loading and such to determine if there were any real increased overheads. Maybe a couple of percent of CPU OS increased overhead and a litt

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-25 Thread Joseph Salisbury
That does seem like a high sys utilization. Can you provide a sample top output to see what the top processes are? You can have top write to a file with: top -n 180 -b -d 30 > top.out 2>&1 & ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Tags added: kernel-key trusty --

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: "kernel config differences between saucy and trusty" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1254920/+attachment/3917140/+files/diff_config_saucy_trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1254920] Re: CPU utilization / accounting issues

2013-11-25 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: "sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1254920/+attachment/3917141/+files/lspci-vnvn.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bu