Re: Busy-wait delay in qmail 1.03 after upgrading to Linux 2.6

[Andrew Morton]

Haakon Riiser <hakonrk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Seems innocuous.  What filesystem type is lock/trigger on?
> 
> Reiserfs.
> 
> > Can you generate a kernel profile of this activity?
> 
> Done.  Note that I had to reboot to do the profiling, so the
> delay is not as bad as the first example:
> 
>   344   00:19:07.476825 write(5, "\0", 1) = 1 <0.291500>
> 
> Still around 700 times slower than 2.4 though. :-)  Anyway,
> here are the results:
> 
> Output from time:
> 
>   real    0m0.309s
>   user    0m0.011s
>   sys     0m0.004s
> 
> Data in prof.time:

OK, that's inconclusive.  Could you do a few runs, or leave it a day or
two, wait until the problem is really prominent and see if you can gather a
clearer profile?  The profiling overhead is negligible when profiling is
enabled but not in use, so there is no need to reboot.


Thanks.
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