On 22 May 2014, at 13:27, Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote:
> In article <0e8bfcfc-c4cd-4ce3-8bac-22eb8ebd3...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>, > J. Hannken-Illjes <hann...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote: >> On 22 May 2014, at 03:15, Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: <snip> > >>> - start a build >>> - hold a key down at the shell prompt and notice how it behaves >>> >>> Every 3 or so lines (of 80 characters), you'll notice a large pause >>> where the machine is unresponsive for a couple of seconds, and then >> comes back. >> >> I'm not able to reproduce this behaviour here. Please describe >> your setup (mounted file systems and build command) in more detail. > > The build command is standard. I have raid over sd0 (SAS drives). > How much memory do you have? Leave enough time for the buffer cache > to fill up. It is 16 CPU / 16 GB virtual machine on KVM/CentOS6. The output of "mount" and the raid level could help, any tuning with "sysctl"? -- J. Hannken-Illjes - hann...@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)
