On Tue, Dec 22 2009, Case van Rij wrote: > fairly basic random write test over nfs, 1 job, directio enabled, > pre-existing 1TB file results in SIGSEGV, > > tested on: CentOS 5.4 x86_64, 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 kernel, fio from > git, last change: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:06:43 +0000 > > fio --name=rndwrs --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=4 --rw=randwrite > --bs=32k --direct=1 --size=1tb --numjobs=1 --filename=/mnt/nfs/1tb.vdb > random-writers: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=32K-32K/32K-32K, > ioengine=libaio, iodepth=4 > Starting 1 process > fio: pid=24153, got signal=11 > > Run status group 0 (all jobs): > fio: file hash not empty on exit > > strace: > [pid 23961] open("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0/coherency_line_size", > O_RDONLY) = 8 > [pid 23961] read(8, "64\n", 32) = 3 > [pid 23961] close(8) = 0 > [pid 23961] getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0) = 20 > [pid 23961] setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, 0) = 0 > [pid 23961] getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0) = 20 > [pid 23961] io_setup(4, {47657422389248}) = 0 > [pid 23961] getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, {ru_utime={0, 1999}, ru_stime={0, > 0}, ...}) = 0 > [pid 23961] open("/mnt/nfs/1tb.vdb", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_DIRECT, 0600) = 8 > [pid 23961] fadvise64(8, 0, 1, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) = 0 > [pid 23961] fadvise64(8, 0, 1, POSIX_FADV_RANDOM) = 0 > [pid 23961] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > > but no core file, since reap_threads cleans up after the sigsegv (?) > > with debug=all: > io 26954 invalidate cache /mnt/nfs/1tb.vdb: 0/1 > file 26954 goodf=1, badf=2, ff=31 > file 26954 get_next_file_rr: 0x2abe73d38028 > file 26954 get_next_file: 0x2abe73d38028 [/mnt/nfs/1tb.vdb] > file 26954 get file /mnt/nfs/1tb.vdb, ref=1 > random 26954 off rand 1425201762 > random 26954 free: b=12242389915983151104, idx=536870912, bit=0 > fio: pid=26954, got signal=11 > process 26952 pid=26954: runstate 4 -> 9 > process 26952 terminate group_id=-1 > process 26952 setting terminate on random-writers/26954 > diskutil 26952 update io ticks > > the same test works if I replace --filesize=1tb with --filesize=1gb > (but makes for a far less interesting test). Looks like math overflow. Can you double check that ulimit -c is set reasonably high (I usually just do ulimit -c1000000000), then remove the -O2 from the fio makefile and recompile, then trigger the problem. That should give you a clean core dump, invoke gdb with fio and that core file so we can see exactly where it bombs. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html