Hi, Am 12.08.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Jack Wang: > Have you checked on the server when this deadlock happened? > > From my experience, you will get a trace for the warning. sadly there is no trace as it seems the kworker is running in an endless loop. I don't have the abbility to login - the system is running with a load of 2000 or even 3000. >From the logs i've gathered the following informations: top with running processes shows only kworker running on 100% CPU. top - 15:02:31 up 10 days, 16:20, 1 user, load average: 2494,67, 1878,69, 905, Tasks: 226 total, 2 running, 222 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie %Cpu(s): 0,9 us, 12,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 36,4 id, 50,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st KiB Mem: 49431532 total, 48672808 used, 758724 free, 52 buffers KiB Swap: 3906556 total, 152772 used, 3753784 free, 40328600 cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 21963 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100,5 0,0 9:15.48 [kworker/u16:3] 29978 root 20 0 62488 20m 6892 S 8,0 0,0 0:02.59 /usr/bin/python / iotop shows the same kworker permanently writing with > 1400MB/s. Total DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s PID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO COMMAND 29978 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 14.69 K/s 0.00 % 0.00 % python /usr/sbin/iotop -b -d 1 -n 30 -P 21963 be/4 root 0.00 B/s 1428.89 M/s 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/u16:3] To me this looks like an endless loop which could also explain why there is no stack trace. Greets, Stefan > > 2015-08-10 16:51 GMT+02:00 Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Am 03.08.2015 um 08:25 schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG: >>> >>> >>> >>> Am 03.08.2015 um 08:21 schrieb Ming Lin: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> any ideas about this deadlock: >>>>> 2015-08-01 00:05:05 "echo 0 > >>>>> /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" >>>>> disables this message. >>>>> 2015-08-01 00:05:05 Tainted: G O 3.18.19+47-ph #1 >>>>> 2015-08-01 00:05:05 INFO: task xfsaild/bcache5:2437 blocked for more >>>>> than 120 seconds. >>>> >>>> >>>> No backtrace? >>>> >>> >>> Yes, no backtrace. >> >> >> Any chance or idea to fix this? This happens every day at a different server >> and is really annoying. >> >> >> Stefan >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" 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 linux-bcache" 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 linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html