Franco, Could you do the following to get more information: "gluster volume profile <volname> start" Wait for some time, this will start gathering what operations are coming to all the bricks" Now execute "gluster volume profile <volname> info" > /file/you/should/reply/to/this/mail/with Then execute: gluster volume profile <volname> stop Lets see if this throws any light on the problem at hand Pranith ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Franco Broi" <franco.broi@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 9:02:48 AM > Subject: glusterfsd process spinning > > Hi > > I've been suffering from continual problems with my gluster filesystem > slowing down due to what I thought was congestion on a single brick > being caused by a problem with the underlying filesystem running slow > but I've just noticed that the glusterfsd process for that particular > brick is running at 100%+, even when the filesystem is almost idle. > > I've done a couple of straces of the brick and another on the same > server, does the high number of futex errors give any clues as to what > might be wrong? > > % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall > ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- > 45.58 0.027554 0 191665 20772 futex > 28.26 0.017084 0 137133 readv > 26.04 0.015743 0 66259 epoll_wait > 0.13 0.000077 3 23 writev > 0.00 0.000000 0 1 epoll_ctl > ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- > 100.00 0.060458 395081 20772 total > > % time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall > ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- > 99.25 0.334020 133 2516 epoll_wait > 0.40 0.001347 0 4090 26 futex > 0.35 0.001192 0 5064 readv > 0.00 0.000000 0 20 writev > ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ---------------- > 100.00 0.336559 11690 26 total > > > > Cheers, > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users