I've ran out of ideas

Aaron Glenn aaron.glenn at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 17:55:46 PST 2004


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:29:14 -0800, Sean Chittenden <sean at chittenden.org> wrote:
> Are you using thttpd+sendfile(2)?  If so, I'm going to guess you've
> exhausted your sendfile(2) buffers.  Can you run top to see what the
> state of your thttpd process is?  I've bumped into this numerous times.

sendfile? I wasn't aware of that option. I'll look into it

11303 nobody    -8    0  4124K  3516K biord    4:35  2.83%  2.83% thttpd

This is with the previous sysctl changes mentioned, and a new kernel
with HZ set to 2000 and DEVICE_POLLING enabled. Absolutely no change
on the interrupts - still 12-14% cpu.

>   If you look through arch@ there's a patch from me to change the
> behavior of sendfile(2) so that it returns with ENOBUFs instead of
> blocking when your sendfile buffers are exhausted.  I would've thought
> that alc@'s work on sendfile(2) would've prevented this from happening,
> but you may have just exhausted them in which case you're getting
> killed by this.   -sc
> 
> --
> Sean Chittenden


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