Re: miserable performance of 2.6.21 under network load

2007-07-24 Thread Aaron Porter
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:13:47PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > You have slab debugging enabled. That makes everything slow. > It costs you ~66% of your CPU time. Disable it. Past peak for the day, but this does look like the culprit. Thanks to all who replied. - To unsubscribe from this

miserable performance of 2.6.21 under network load

2007-07-24 Thread Aaron Porter
I'm in the process up upgrading a pool of apache servers from 2.6.17.8 to 2.6.21.5, and we're seeing a pretty major change in behavior. Under identical network load, 2.6.21 has a load average more than 3 times higher, cpu 0 spends well over 90% of its time in interrupts (vs ~30% under

miserable performance of 2.6.21 under network load

2007-07-24 Thread Aaron Porter
I'm in the process up upgrading a pool of apache servers from 2.6.17.8 to 2.6.21.5, and we're seeing a pretty major change in behavior. Under identical network load, 2.6.21 has a load average more than 3 times higher, cpu 0 spends well over 90% of its time in interrupts (vs ~30% under

Re: miserable performance of 2.6.21 under network load

2007-07-24 Thread Aaron Porter
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:13:47PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: You have slab debugging enabled. That makes everything slow. It costs you ~66% of your CPU time. Disable it. Past peak for the day, but this does look like the culprit. Thanks to all who replied. - To unsubscribe from this

NFS Oops 2.6.20.14

2007-06-18 Thread Aaron Porter
Reproducable, every time nfs-kernel-server exits: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6f printing eip: f92a7751 *pde = 6b6b6b6b Oops: [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: xt_tcpudp iptable_nat nf_nat

NFS Oops 2.6.20.14

2007-06-18 Thread Aaron Porter
Reproducable, every time nfs-kernel-server exits: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6f printing eip: f92a7751 *pde = 6b6b6b6b Oops: [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: xt_tcpudp iptable_nat nf_nat