I started to observe similar behavior on one of my workloads. Also, with periodic statistics output and also on RHEL 6.5. Here is gdb output in my case: # ps axu | grep fio root 4489 0.0 0.0 322040 52816 pts/1 Sl+ 08:31 0:03 fio --status-interval 10 --minimal fios/1.fio root 5547 0.0 0.0 103256 860 pts/0 S+ 09:56 0:00 grep fio # cat /proc/4489/wchan futex_wait_queue_me # gdb GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-60.el6_4.1) Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. (gdb) attach 4489 Attaching to process 4489 Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/fio...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/librdmacm.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/librdmacm.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libibverbs.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libibverbs.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib64/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib64/libaio.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libaio.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib64/libz.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib64/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done. [New LWP 4768] [New LWP 4491] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/libdl.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 0x000000376f60b5bc in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install glibc-2.12-1.132.el6.x86_64 libaio-0.3.107-10.el6.x86_64 libibverbs-1.1.7-1.el6.x86_64 librdmacm-1.0.17-1.el6.x86_64 zlib-1.2.3-29.el6.x86_64 (gdb) bt #0 0x000000376f60b5bc in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x000000000042ea39 in fio_mutex_down (mutex=0x7f08b4e9f000) at mutex.c:155 #2 0x000000000041b680 in show_run_stats () at stat.c:1409 #3 0x0000000000449c85 in fio_backend () at backend.c:2042 #4 0x000000376ee1ed1d in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #5 0x000000000040a4b9 in _start () (gdb) Does it help? Thanks, Vasily On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-07-11 18:19, Michael Mattsson wrote: >> >> Hey, >> This system will be busy over the weekend with other work, I'll get >> this to you at the next window or try reproduce it on a different >> system. Do you want the trace with or without the patch you sent? > > > That's fine - and either version can be used, doesn't matter to me. > > > -- > 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 > -- 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