Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Poor desktop responsiveness with background I/O-operations | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:38:41 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 10:50 +0200, Ulrich Lukas wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > can you try the following two things? > > > > echo 4096 > /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests > > for i in `pidof kjournald` ; do ionice -c1 -p $i ; done > > I tried this just now, but it doesn't change things much. I can do a > more testing later today.
Try ionice -c3 for your dd.
> > I assume you're using CFQ. > > Yes, it's CFQ. (see .config of my previous posting) > > Filesystem is EXT4.
Mine is ext3.
I can easily reproduce pain. The attached cheezy test script, when run back to back with no args (stock IO), regularly produces beauties:
Performance counter stats for 'sh -c konsole -e exit':
257.670601 task-clock-msecs # 0.004 CPUs 1036 context-switches # 0.004 M/sec 30 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 6317 page-faults # 0.025 M/sec 471734719 cycles # 1830.767 M/sec 393365060 instructions # 0.834 IPC 7849464 cache-references # 30.463 M/sec 1038976 cache-misses # 4.032 M/sec
65.766937233 seconds time elapsed
Yup, a full minute to get a binary loaded and fired up. Seems it and others get evicted by the VM. Getting whatever back into ram is painful to listen to (poor disk/me.. seek latency eating MUCH time).
Calling script back to back with args 1 (realtime foreground) 3 (idle background) does best:
Performance counter stats for 'sh -c konsole -e exit':
169.915036 task-clock-msecs # 0.077 CPUs 439 context-switches # 0.003 M/sec 9 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 6314 page-faults # 0.037 M/sec 363128252 cycles # 2137.117 M/sec 367410945 instructions # 1.012 IPC 5822302 cache-references # 34.266 M/sec 437189 cache-misses # 2.573 M/sec
2.213079979 seconds time elapsed
Args 2 (best effort foreground) and 3 (idle background);
Performance counter stats for 'sh -c konsole -e exit':
176.689856 task-clock-msecs # 0.015 CPUs 357 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 15 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 6314 page-faults # 0.036 M/sec 374861947 cycles # 2121.582 M/sec 368929476 instructions # 0.984 IPC 5806286 cache-references # 32.861 M/sec 496651 cache-misses # 2.811 M/sec
12.036165968 seconds time elapsed
-Mike [unhandled content-type:application/x-shellscript] | |