Re: Hot rb_next, setup_cluster_no_bitmap

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Kirby
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:04:29AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Excerpts from Simon Kirby's message of 2011-08-03 21:32:10 -0400: > > Perhaps as a further clue as to what is going on, on this same backup box > > after all of the rsyncs are finished/killed and a good amount of time has > > passed (n

Re: Hot rb_next, setup_cluster_no_bitmap

2011-08-04 Thread Chris Mason
Excerpts from Simon Kirby's message of 2011-08-03 21:32:10 -0400: > Perhaps as a further clue as to what is going on, on this same backup box > after all of the rsyncs are finished/killed and a good amount of time has > passed (no cleaner processes running in the background or anything), > "sync" i

Re: Hot rb_next, setup_cluster_no_bitmap

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Kirby
Perhaps as a further clue as to what is going on, on this same backup box after all of the rsyncs are finished/killed and a good amount of time has passed (no cleaner processes running in the background or anything), "sync" is still consistently takes ~4 minutes to run, and pushes out a lot to disk

Re: Hot rb_next, setup_cluster_no_bitmap

2011-08-03 Thread Chris Mason
Excerpts from Simon Kirby's message of 2011-08-03 19:10:59 -0400: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:39:49PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:06:55PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > > > > > I see Josef's 86d4a77ba3dc4ace238a0556541a41df2bd71d49 introduced the > > > bitmaps list. I

Re: Hot rb_next, setup_cluster_no_bitmap

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Kirby
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:39:49PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:06:55PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > > > I see Josef's 86d4a77ba3dc4ace238a0556541a41df2bd71d49 introduced the > > bitmaps list. I could try temporarily reverting this (some fixups needed) > > if anybody thin

Re: Hot rb_next, setup_cluster_no_bitmap

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Kirby
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:06:55PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > I see Josef's 86d4a77ba3dc4ace238a0556541a41df2bd71d49 introduced the > bitmaps list. I could try temporarily reverting this (some fixups needed) > if anybody thinks my cache bouncing idea might be slightly possible. I'll try the atta

Hot rb_next, setup_cluster_no_bitmap

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Kirby
Hi! Since upgrading from 2.6.35+bits to 2.6.38 and then more recently to 3.0, our "big btrfs backup box" with 20 * 3 TB AOE-attached btrfs volumes started showing more CPU usage and backups were no longer completing in a day. I tried Linus HEAD from yesterday merged with btrfs for-linus (same as L