Re: USB 2.0 with 250Gb disk and insane loads

Oliver Neukum (oliver@neukum.org)
Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:21:40 +0200


> > Probably the block layer as it waits for free io slots.
> > But that doesn't tell us why the requests are not executed.
> > Where is SCSI timeout kicking in?
>
> I'm not seeing any scsi timeouts in the logs.

So it seems that the driver doesn't fail utterly, but crawls along.
Storage's debugging output should clarify the situation.

[..]
> > Could you try on USB1.1 only?
>
> Stuck it in an older machine on USB 1.1 and it foudn the disk fine
> (redhat 9, 2.4.20-13.9 kernel on that machine), and ditto result:
>
> 19:15:16 up 2 days, 20:23, 4 users, load average: 6.02, 2.41, 0.89
> 58 processes: 55 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.2% user 4.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 95.8% idle
> Mem: 385040k av, 380820k used, 4220k free, 0k shrd, 67368k
> buff 224720k active, 69412k inactive
> Swap: 521632k av, 80k used, 521552k free 237452k
> cached
>
> and generating about 2500 interrupts for the usb controller per 10
> seconds and when i finally break it off and give it "sync" it uses
> about two minutes with about 4500 per 10 seconds to get it all on
> disk. On 2.4 the machine becomes more and more sluggish if I let it go
> more than a short minute.

Which 2.4 ?

Regards
Oliver

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