Re: 2.4.21 opteron 32 Gig RAM has 10k block writes/sec on running posgresql 7.4.6 disk i/o intensive app

[Paramveer Singh]

thanks Wli!
the update seems to have worked and the same situation has not arisen again.

regards,
ps


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:07:57 -0800, William Lee Irwin III
<wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:26:48PM +0530, Paramveer Singh wrote:
> > we are using a RedHat AS3 U3 box (2.4.21-4.ELsmp) to run a very
> > intensive database app which does a _huge_ number of inserts durnig
> > the data generation phase. However, we are noticing a unexpected
> > performance drops with user cpu utilization numbers falling to near 0.
> > most of the cpu is used up in iowait.
> > CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
> >           total    2.0%    0.0%    7.6%   0.0%     0.0%  362.4%   27.2%
> > /proc/slabinfo showed huge numbers in buffer_head. The line was:
> > buffer_head       4908452 4962249    200 260854 261171    1 : 16000 4000
> 
> Please try to reproduce on a more recent RHEL3, e.g. RHEL3-U4 released
> today.
> 
> 
> -- wli
>
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