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Jodell

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 285

Re: (Solved) Kernel 2.6.35 I/O congestion

Can you provide a link to the LKML/bugzilla/kernel.org thread/patch ? Thanks.

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Last edited by Jodell (2010-12-06 15:55:20)

bluepumpkin

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 58

Re: (Solved) Kernel 2.6.35 I/O congestion

Can you provide a link to the LKML/bugzilla/kernel.org thread/patch ? Thanks.

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combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: (Solved) Kernel 2.6.35 I/O congestion

Can you provide a link to the LKML/bugzilla/kernel.org thread/patch ? Thanks.

Link

TY !!! Needs some testing now, first to see if this patch has been merged to mainline. If not, no problemo. Thanks again.

combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: (Solved) Kernel 2.6.35 I/O congestion

OK, this is way better now:

CONFIG_NO_HZ=y

13:52:10 up 12 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.09, 0.17, 0.14

Linux vostro 2.6.36.1-DELL #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 6 13:35:10 CET 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5670 @ 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Had 1.5/2.5 load average on idle...

0.00, 0.03, 0.08 now, nice...

Last edited by combuster (2010-12-06 13:08:26)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,576

Re: (Solved) Kernel 2.6.35 I/O congestion

Seems to be finally fixed in 2.6.37

$ uname -a
Linux kahuna 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 29 19:40:04 UTC 2011 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
$ uptime
 18:20:03 up 39 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05

Sekre

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From: The Rainy North

Registered: 2006-11-24

Posts: 116

Re: (Solved) Kernel 2.6.35 I/O congestion

Updated to 2.6.37 but it is still present

[braino] ~/ uname -a
  Linux braino 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 29 20:00:33 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
[braino] ~/ uptime
  18:39:20 up 53 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.05, 1.12, 1.13

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: (Solved) Kernel 2.6.35 I/O congestion

Updated to 2.6.37 but it is still present

No this problem was really solved: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … 25ee77d428

If you still have high load, there must be another cause. It would be better to start a new thread for this though, since i'm marking it solved.

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