On 08/09/2010 12:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've been copying some large (several GB) files from my local system to
> a NAS server on my LAN, using NFS.
>
> The local files are on an external USB drive (Iomega 500GB unit) on a
> USB 2 port. The NAS server is also Iomega, an ix-200. The network switch
> is a Belkin Wireless G with 100Mbps Ethernet ports (I'm not using Wifi
> for this). I'm not using jumbo frames or anything fancy, in fact I don't
> think the Belkin supports them. The system is an Intel Core 2 Duo mobo
> with 4GB RAM running F13 fully updated.
>
> I'm using KDE 4.4.5. When I do one of these copies (using cp from a
> terminal), my entire system becomes unresponsive for periods of about 1
> minute, then becomes usable for maybe 10 seconds, freezes again for
> another minute etc. etc. until the copy finishes. "Unresponsive" means
> the mouse cursor won't move, button clicks aren't attended to and I
> can't type in Konsole or in the Evolution mail composer.
>
> Copying the same files to a local SATA disk doesn't cause this
> phenomenon, so it can't just be the external drive. OTOH, I use the same
> NAS for regular rsync-based backups *to the same NFS-mounted NAS* and
> the load is not noticeable.
>
> Any thoughts on this would be welcome.
>
> poc
Usually you see this kind of problem when your HDD is thrashing.
Try running your copy command with ionice:
ionice -c3 <command>
Other things to check:
* run top in a separate window before you run the freezing command --
see what it says when it works
* see if tty sessions in Ctrl+Alt+F2..F6 respond any better than the UI
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08-09-2010, 09:02 PM
kalinix
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:45 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 12:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I've been copying some large (several GB) files from my local system to
> > a NAS server on my LAN, using NFS.
> >
> > poc
>
> Usually you see this kind of problem when your HDD is thrashing.
>
> Try running your copy command with ionice:
> ionice -c3 <command>
>
> Other things to check:
> * run top in a separate window before you run the freezing command --
> see what it says when it works
> * see if tty sessions in Ctrl+Alt+F2..F6 respond any better than the UI
>
>
I've seen this too, and tty is almost the same as bad as UI.
As a matter of fact there is an nfs related process eating the processor
(nfs.mount or mount.nfs, if I remember correctly). I'm curious if this
happens only on kde or it can be observed on gnome too.
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08-09-2010, 11:21 PM
Patrick O'Callaghan
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:45 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 12:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I've been copying some large (several GB) files from my local system to
> > a NAS server on my LAN, using NFS.
> >
> > The local files are on an external USB drive (Iomega 500GB unit) on a
> > USB 2 port. The NAS server is also Iomega, an ix-200. The network switch
> > is a Belkin Wireless G with 100Mbps Ethernet ports (I'm not using Wifi
> > for this). I'm not using jumbo frames or anything fancy, in fact I don't
> > think the Belkin supports them. The system is an Intel Core 2 Duo mobo
> > with 4GB RAM running F13 fully updated.
> >
> > I'm using KDE 4.4.5. When I do one of these copies (using cp from a
> > terminal), my entire system becomes unresponsive for periods of about 1
> > minute, then becomes usable for maybe 10 seconds, freezes again for
> > another minute etc. etc. until the copy finishes. "Unresponsive" means
> > the mouse cursor won't move, button clicks aren't attended to and I
> > can't type in Konsole or in the Evolution mail composer.
> >
> > Copying the same files to a local SATA disk doesn't cause this
> > phenomenon, so it can't just be the external drive. OTOH, I use the same
> > NAS for regular rsync-based backups *to the same NFS-mounted NAS* and
> > the load is not noticeable.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this would be welcome.
> >
> > poc
>
> Usually you see this kind of problem when your HDD is thrashing.
>
> Try running your copy command with ionice:
> ionice -c3 <command>
OK, I tried that with a 1.2GB file. The mouse didn't freeze but I still
couldn't do anything for long periods, as before.
> Other things to check:
> * run top in a separate window before you run the freezing command --
> see what it says when it works
It freezes :-) i.e. it fails to update the status except every minute or
so. When it does update, I can see the load average going up (over 4 in
this case, on a more or less idle system). CPU wasn't being saturated or
anything.
> * see if tty sessions in Ctrl+Alt+F2..F6 respond any better than the UI
Also frozen.
poc
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08-09-2010, 11:40 PM
Patrick O'Callaghan
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:46 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Use rsync to do the copying and come up with a --bwlimit
> option that will keep it from completely clogging the
> network and let it catch its breath sometimes.
I don't think clogging the network is really the issue but when I
throttled it to 100KBPS I got no freezing. Have to try some other values
to see where it kicks in.
poc
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08-10-2010, 12:12 AM
John Mellor
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:46 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Use rsync to do the copying and come up with a --bwlimit
> > option that will keep it from completely clogging the
> > network and let it catch its breath sometimes.
>
> I don't think clogging the network is really the issue but when I
> throttled it to 100KBPS I got no freezing. Have to try some other values
> to see where it kicks in.
Are you seeing perhaps a common ethernet and disk or ethernet and video
using the same interrupt? If so, then perhaps it would be good to
separate them in your BIOS configuration if you can...
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08-10-2010, 01:19 AM
Patrick O'Callaghan
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 20:12 -0400, John Mellor wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:46 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > Use rsync to do the copying and come up with a --bwlimit
> > > option that will keep it from completely clogging the
> > > network and let it catch its breath sometimes.
> >
> > I don't think clogging the network is really the issue but when I
> > throttled it to 100KBPS I got no freezing. Have to try some other values
> > to see where it kicks in.
>
> Are you seeing perhaps a common ethernet and disk or ethernet and video
> using the same interrupt?
Not as far as I can tell (using 'lshw').
poc
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08-10-2010, 01:39 AM
Gilboa Davara
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 20:12 -0400, John Mellor wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 19:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:46 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> > > Use rsync to do the copying and come up with a --bwlimit
>> > > option that will keep it from completely clogging the
>> > > network and let it catch its breath sometimes.
>> >
>> > I don't think clogging the network is really the issue but when I
>> > throttled it to 100KBPS I got no freezing. Have to try some other values
>> > to see where it kicks in.
>>
>> Are you seeing perhaps a common ethernet and disk or ethernet and video
>> using the same interrupt?
>
> Not as far as I can tell (using 'lshw').
>
> poc
>
What's the output of /proc/interrupts
- Gilboa
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08-10-2010, 03:30 AM
Patrick O'Callaghan
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 04:39 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >> Are you seeing perhaps a common ethernet and disk or ethernet and
> video
> >> using the same interrupt?
> >
> > Not as far as I can tell (using 'lshw').
> >
> > poc
> >
>
> What's the output of /proc/interrupts
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Ethernet is using MSI interrupts with no sharing.
I do see sharing on a very busy USB port, but I doubt that this is the
cause for the slow down.
Doesn't look like a hardware / driver configuration problem to me.
Just to be certain, if you copy files from the USB drive to you local
HD, do you see the same problem?
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08-10-2010, 01:41 PM
Patrick O'Callaghan
UI freezes while copying large file via NFS
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 10:49 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > $ cat /proc/interrupts
> > CPU0 CPU1
> > 31: 58723167 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
> > 23: 1445442 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5
>
> Ethernet is using MSI interrupts with no sharing.
> I do see sharing on a very busy USB port, but I doubt that this is the
> cause for the slow down.
> Doesn't look like a hardware / driver configuration problem to me.
>
> Just to be certain, if you copy files from the USB drive to you local
> HD, do you see the same problem?
I mentioned this in my first post. It doesn't happen with copies to the
local HD.
poc
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