Re: [tcpdump-workers] running tcpdump seems to block disk operations on loaded systems

2011-12-18 Thread Guy Harris
On Dec 18, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > here's the strace: > 09:48:15.982305 setsockopt(3, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_RX_RING, > "\0\0\2\0\37\0\0\0@\0\1\0\37\0\0\0", 16) = 0 <15.531056> > ^^^ here it hangs > 09:48:32.050796 mmap(NULL, 4063232, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = > 0x

Re: [tcpdump-workers] running tcpdump seems to block disk operations on loaded systems

2011-12-17 Thread Guy Harris
On Dec 17, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > When starting tcpdump (using either -i any or -i xxx) on system with > higher disk load, it sometimes happens that system seems to hang almost > immediately and > loadavg value shoots to really bad numbers (almost 200 for example). So that

[tcpdump-workers] running tcpdump seems to block disk operations on loaded systems

2011-12-17 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello, I'd like to ask about following problem we've hit few times.. When starting tcpdump (using either -i any or -i xxx) on system with higher disk load, it sometimes happens that system seems to hang almost immediately and loadavg value shoots to really bad numbers (almost 200 for example).