Re: GFS Performance Problems (RHEL5)

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Paul Risenhoover wrote:


Sorry about this mis-send.

I'm guessing my problem has to do with this:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2007-October/msg00332.html

BTW: My file system is 13TB.

I found this article that talks about tuning the glock_purge setting:
http://people.redhat.com/wcheng/Patches/GFS/readme.gfs_glock_trimming.R4

But it seems to require a special kernel module that I don't have :(. Anybody know where I can get it?



The patch should be part of RHEL 4.6 (or RHEL 5.1) - both will be released soon.

-- Wendy

Hi All,

I am experiencing some substantial performance problems on my RHEL 5 server running GFS. The specific symptom that I'm seeing is that the file system will hang for anywhere from 5 to 45 seconds on occasion. When this happens it stalls all processes that are attempting to access the file system (ie, "ls -l") such that even a ctrl-break can't stop it.

It also appears that gfs_scand is working extremely hard. It runs at 7-10% CPU almost constantly. I did some research on this and discovered a discussion about cluster locking in relation to directories with large numbers of files, and believe it might be related. I've got some directories with 5000+ files. However, I get the stalling behavior even when nothing is accessing those particular directories.

I also tried some tuning some of the parameters:

gfs_tool settune /mnt/promise demote_secs 10
gfs_tool settune /mnt/promise scand_secs 2
gfs_tool settune /mnt/promise/ reclaim_limit 1000

But this doesn't appear to have done much. Does anybody have some thoughts on how I might resolve this?

Paul

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