Re: Proposal of tunable fix for scalability of 8.4

On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
> vmstat seems similar to wakeup some
> kthr      memory            page            disk
> faults      cpu
> r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 s2 sd   in   sy
> cs us sy id
> 63 0 0 45535728 38689856 0 14 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 163318 334225
> 360179 47 17 36
> 85 0 0 45436736 38690760 0 6 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 165536 347462
> 365987 47 17 36
> 59 0 0 45405184 38681752 0 11 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 155153 326182
> 345527 47 16 37
> 53 0 0 45393816 38673344 0 6 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 152752 317851
> 340737 47 16 37
> 66 0 0 45378312 38651920 0 11 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 150979 304350
> 336915 47 16 38
> 67 0 0 45489520 38639664 0 5 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 157188 318958
> 351905 47 16 37
> 82 0 0 45483600 38633344 0 10 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 168797 348619
> 375827 47 17 36
> 68 0 0 45463008 38614432 0 9 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 173020 376594
> 385370 47 18 35
> 54 0 0 45451376 38603792 0 13 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 161891 342522
> 364286 48 17 35
> 41 0 0 45356544 38605976 0 5 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 167250 358320
> 372469 47 17 36
> 27 0 0 45323472 38596952 0 11 0 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 165099 344695
> 364256 48 17 35


The good news is there's now at least enough runnable procs. What I
find *extremely* odd is the CPU usage is almost dead constant...
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