You could tune 'dirty_ratio/background_ratio' to get this sorted out - to avoid larger buffers in memory. On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Justin Clift <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. :) > > Going to assume "really busy host". (hoping) > > I guess looking into raising the timeout value or something would be > the right thing to try first. I'll look into it after getting some > sleep in a bit. > > + Justin > > > On 12/06/2014, at 6:47 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote: >> This doesn't look like xfs bug. It is likely caused by a bad disk / >> array or a really busy host. >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Justin Clift <justin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi Niels, >>> >>> 4 out of 5 Rackspace slave VM's hung overnight. Rebooted one of >>> them and it didn't come back. Checking out it's console (they >>> have an in-browser Java applet for it) showed a kernel traceback. >>> >>> Scrollback for the console (took some effort ;>) is attached. >>> >>> It's showing a bunch of XFS messages from the system shutdown, >>> but then (down a page or two) a traceback starts. >>> >>> Does this look like a potential XFS bug, or is it more hinting >>> something else is wrong? eg improper cleanup script, or we >>> need kernel settings adjusted, or ? >>> >>> + Justin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org >>> >>> An open source, distributed file system scaling to several >>> petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. >>> >>> My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-devel mailing list >>> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -ab >> >> Imagination is more important than knowledge --Albert Einstein > > -- > GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org > > An open source, distributed file system scaling to several > petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. > > My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel -- Religious confuse piety with mere ritual, the virtuous confuse regulation with outcomes _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel