Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:27:26 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pasi Sjoholm <> | Subject | Re: ksoftirqd uses 99% CPU triggered by network traffic (maybe RLT-8139 related) |
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Robert Olsson wrote:
> > Yeah, when the ksoftirqd is taking all the cpu it will be like that, but > > when the kernel is behaving normally the starving diff is between 0->1sec. > Well ksoftirqd makes your kernel load just visible which is good and > ksofirqd gets accounted for this when softirq's get deferred to it. > It may look like goes from 0 to 100% but thats probably not the case. > The problem is we can starve userland at high loads. As said we were > trying some way to cure this I may have some old patch if you like to try.
Ok, as I said before I'm willing to test your patches.
It would be nice that one could use the full capacity of his/her computer. This is not a big problem for everyday use for a workstation but prevents 2.6-series to be used in production-enviroments in the servers. But hey.. we need to do some work and maybe we will resolve this. =)
-- Pasi Sjöholm
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