INN with hyperthreading/SMP
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Tue May 11 18:29:11 UTC 2004
Mike Zanker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> are there any known problems with running INN (2.4.1) on a box with a
> hyperthreading CPU and SMP linux kernel?
No, it works the nuts. I have been meaning to pthread the incoming
feeds, but frankly on a moderately fast machine I don't feel that I need
it, and the reaction to my last question about pthreads in this M/L was
little to no interest. It does help if you are running overchan and
innfeed as separate processes.
I would expect the new "E" processors with 1MB cache to do better with
HT, but until I find a system board to support it with the features and
price I want, I won't be able to test. I did get one of the CPUs at deep
discount, but I haven't been able to try it.
>
> I've built a box to replace my aging feeder with a P4 HT processor and
> have installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The SMP kernel was installed
> by default (2.4.21 with RH mods). I built INN with perl and largefiles
> so that I could have CNFS buffers >2GB.
>
> The new box is currently receiving a feed from the feeder but innd is
> growing at an alarming rate. After a few hours it was using about 350MB
> RAM. On my reader box (same OS but single P3 processor) with the same
> feed, innd never gets above about 50MB. Both boxes have 512MB RAM.
You may have some memory issues on a box that small, although I would
expect the VM to be able to cope with it, at the cost of some performance.
>
> I've rebooted with a non-SMP kernel to see if it makes any difference
> but wondered whether this was a known issue.
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME
COMMAND
040 9 751 1 15 0 804912 41464 schedu S ? 3851:51
/usr/local/news/bin/innd -p 3 PATH=/usr/local/news/bin:/usr/lo
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-bill davidsen (davidsen at tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
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