2003-09-10 07:57:45

by Elmer

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Subject: softraid + serverraid locking FS


cp -dpR lotsfiles2GB /testcopy

SMP x335 UP x335
serverraid-serverraid OK OK
softraid-softraid OK OK
softraid-serverraid OK OK
serverraid5E-softraid SLEEPY
serverraid1E-softraid PROBLEM

it is redhat AS 2.4.9-25 kernel, SMP kernel for both.

PROBLEM:
some general FS lock is accuired probably.
ps axl and top and ls take up to 10-30 seconds to execute
once heartbeat+softdog got its minute and flushed the whole box

Both computers are identical except one has 1 cpu, oter 2 cpu
2GB memory, bigpages=2100

softraid is raid1, discbox is EXP300, serverraid is 4M
/ is on softraid, sometimes "more /proc/mdstat" gets waiting at last row
for a while.









2003-09-10 08:11:37

by Arjan van de Ven

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Subject: Re: softraid + serverraid locking FS

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:52, [email protected] wrote:
> cp -dpR lotsfiles2GB /testcopy
>
> SMP x335 UP x335
> serverraid-serverraid OK OK
> softraid-softraid OK OK
> softraid-serverraid OK OK
> serverraid5E-softraid SLEEPY
> serverraid1E-softraid PROBLEM
>
> it is redhat AS 2.4.9-25 kernel, SMP kernel for both.

that kernel is very old and heavily patched; lkml is not the place to
report problems, your Red Hat support contact is...


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2003-09-10 11:16:21

by Elmer

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Subject: Re: softraid + serverraid locking FS


the same problem with vanilla 2.4.22 (SMP kernel on UP hw)

for example, after startup:

1. cp -dpR lotsfiles4GB /testcopy
2. load goes with minutes to 13
3. /bin/sync blocks
4. Ctrl-Z to cp
5. ps axlef waits 3-10 secs before answer as raid1 sync goes with 14kB/sec

previous problem was without raid sync, currently just it takes time to
test without it
NB! the same copy from the same softraid partition to the same softraid
partition sucks a bit, but load does not grow steadily, remains 3changing raid1sync speed affects a bit the whole thing, but does not end it.

the same copy within serverraid partition is ok.

Currently I havent managed to get softdog into action, but behaviour is
still bad enough to call it a BUG.




> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:52, [email protected] wrote:
>> cp -dpR lotsfiles2GB /testcopy
>>
>> SMP x335 UP x335
>> serverraid-serverraid OK OK
>> softraid-softraid OK OK
>> softraid-serverraid OK OK
>> serverraid5E-softraid SLEEPY X
>> serverraid1E-softraid X PROBLEM
>>
>> it is redhat AS 2.4.9-25 kernel, SMP kernel for both.
>
> that kernel is very old and heavily patched; lkml is not the place to
> report problems, your Red Hat support contact is...