On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Marcus Sorensen wrote: > I feel like this is probably something I should be able to find info > on in an existing faq or archive, but I haven't been able to find > anything. Are these daemons supposed to use a whole core 24x7? The > setup *seems* to be functioning normally in initial testing This was fixed by commit b98d7650aad28f07579b0f8f529dcd23dbb09466. I take it you were running something from the master branch? This bug was short-lived and shouldn't have appeared in any release.. sage > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ Flags > WCHAN COMMAND > 4576 root 20 0 580m 468m 4528 S 100.0 2.9 1259:56 ..4.214. > futex_wai cmds > 4480 root 20 0 138m 39m 2904 S 100.1 0.2 1259:39 ..4.214. > futex_wai cmon > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ WCHAN > Flags COMMAND > 2540 root 20 0 1140m 861m 3656 S 100.0 2.7 1269:59 > futex_wai ..4.214. cosd > > As you can see almost all of the time is spent in futex wait, strace > reveals a billion polling events on one of the threads (on each of > cmds,cmon,cosd), e.g: > > [pid 4583] poll([{fd=7, events=POLLIN|POLLRDBAND}, {fd=5, > events=POLLIN|POLLRDBAND}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html