Re: Gluster High CPU/Clients Hanging on Heavy Writes

Yuhao Zhang <zzyzxd@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 5 Aug 2018 23:56:36 -0500

Atin, that was my typo... I think it was glusterfsd, but not 100% sure. I will keep an eye when it happens next time.

Thank you all for looking into this! I tried another transfer earlier today but it didn't get the chance to reach the point where glusterfsd starts to fail before we needed to start the production mission critical jobs. I am going to try another time next week and report back to the thread.
Btw, I took a look into syslog and find this event happened right at the time when clients started to hang:

Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142702] INFO: task glusteriotwr3:6895 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142760]       Tainted: P           O    4.4.0-116-generic #140-Ubuntu
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142805] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142863] glusteriotwr3   D ffff88102c18fb98     0  6895      1 0x00000000
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142872]  ffff88102c18fb98 ffff88102c18fb68 ffff88085be0b800 ffff88103f314600
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142877]  ffff88102c190000 ffff8805397fe0f4 ffff88103f314600 00000000ffffffff
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142882]  ffff8805397fe0f8 ffff88102c18fbb0 ffffffff8184ae45 ffff8805397fe0f0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142887] Call Trace:
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142899]  [<ffffffff8184ae45>] schedule+0x35/0x80
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142904]  [<ffffffff8184b0ee>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142910]  [<ffffffff8184cd29>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xb9/0x130
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142915]  [<ffffffff8184cdbf>] mutex_lock+0x1f/0x30
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142922]  [<ffffffff8122071d>] walk_component+0x21d/0x310
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142926]  [<ffffffff81221ba1>] link_path_walk+0x191/0x5c0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142931]  [<ffffffff8121ff3b>] ? path_init+0x1eb/0x3c0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142935]  [<ffffffff812220cc>] path_lookupat+0x7c/0x110
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142940]  [<ffffffff8123a828>] ? __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x128/0x1a0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142944]  [<ffffffff81223d01>] filename_lookup+0xb1/0x180
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142948]  [<ffffffff8123aadb>] ? setxattr+0x18b/0x200
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142955]  [<ffffffff811f2109>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x189/0x1f0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142960]  [<ffffffff81223906>] ? getname_flags+0x56/0x1f0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142964]  [<ffffffff81223ea6>] user_path_at_empty+0x36/0x40
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142970]  [<ffffffff81218d76>] vfs_fstatat+0x66/0xc0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142975]  [<ffffffff81219331>] SYSC_newlstat+0x31/0x60
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142980]  [<ffffffff8121dade>] ? path_put+0x1e/0x30
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142984]  [<ffffffff8123ac0f>] ? path_setxattr+0xbf/0xe0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142989]  [<ffffffff8121946e>] SyS_newlstat+0xe/0x10
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142996]  [<ffffffff8184efc8>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1c/0xbb

On Aug 5, 2018, at 08:39, Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 at 13:29, Yuhao Zhang <zzyzxd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry, what I meant was, if I start the transfer now and get glusterd into zombie status, 

glusterd or glusterfsd?

it's unlikely that I can fully recover the server without a reboot.

On Aug 5, 2018, at 02:55, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Yuhao Zhang <zzyzxd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a semi-production server and I can't bring it down right now. Will try to get the monitoring output when I get a chance. 

Collecting top output doesn't require to bring down servers.

As I recall, the high CPU processes are brick daemons (glusterfsd) and htop showed they were in status D. However, I saw zero zpool IO as clients were all hanging.

On Aug 5, 2018, at 02:38, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Yuhao Zhang <zzyzxd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I am running into a situation that heavy write causes Gluster server went into zombie with many high CPU processes and all clients hangs, it is almost 100% reproducible on my machine. Hope someone can help.

Can you give us the output of monitioring these processes with High cpu usage captured in the duration when your tests are running?

MON_INTERVAL=10 # can be increased for very long runs
top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > /tmp/top_proc.${HOSTNAME}.txt # CPU utilization by process
top -bHd $MON_INTERVAL > /tmp/top_thr.${HOSTNAME}.txt # CPU utilization by thread

I started to observe this issue when running rsync to copy files from another server and I thought it might be because Gluster doesn't like rsync's delta transfer with a lot of small writes. However, I was able to reproduce this with "rsync --whole-file --inplace", or even with cp or scp. It usually appears after starting the transfer for a few hours, but sometimes can happen within several minutes.

Since this is a single node Gluster distributed volume, I tried to transfer files directly onto the server bypassing Gluster clients, but it still caused the same issue.

It is running on top of a ZFS RAIDZ2 dataset. Options are attached. Also, I attached the statedump generated when my clients hung, and volume options.

- Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 / 4.4.0-116-generic
- GlusterFS 3.12.8

Thank you,
Yuhao

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