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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:58:18 +0000
From:      "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SLOW rsync from bit0.us-west
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On 12 January 2013 15:37, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 12 January 2013 05:21, John Marshall
> <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> wrote:
>> I have been updating the gnats collection on our mirror via rsync since
>> the CVSup updates stopped but noticed this morning that the updates
>> appeared to be stalled. I killed off jobs that appeared to be stuck
>> downloading incremental file list (after about 20 minutes) but then
>> thought to run rsync manually with -vvv. What I saw then was short
>> bursts of messages like 'recv_file_name(bin/nnnn)' interspersed with
>> 15-20 seconds of nothing. tcpdump showed just a handful of packets every
>> 15 seconds or so. The update eventually finished after more than 2 hours.
>
> The server which runs bit0.us-west (which is also svn0.us-west), is
> totally bogged down.
>
> CPU:  3.1% user,  0.0% nice, 96.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  1.0% idle
>
> As it has just been updated to the latest stable/9 I'm a bit
> suspicious of that...
>
> Thanks for letting us know. I will start poking people.

Please have another look and see if things aren't better now.

It looks like we are stressing nullfs more than people had before - at
least with way more vnode / files so the server was spending all of
its time doing vnode lookups.

-- 
Simon L. B. Nielsen



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