Hi Zheng, this is output of tune2fs:
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: /
Filesystem UUID: 358707f1-8997-4e96-8110-d9f929073e68
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index
filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file
huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
Default mount options: journal_data_writeback user_xattr acl
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 23281664
Block count: 93110272
Reserved block count: 4655513
Free blocks: 44878839
Free inodes: 22074662
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Reserved GDT blocks: 1001
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8192
Inode blocks per group: 512
Flex block group size: 16
Filesystem created: Fri Oct 7 05:01:07 2011
Last mount time: Mon Sep 9 18:49:39 2013
Last write time: Wed Aug 21 10:48:03 2013
Mount count: 23
Maximum mount count: -1
Last checked: Fri Oct 7 05:01:07 2011
Check interval: 0 (<none>)
Lifetime writes: 1795 GB
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 256
Required extra isize: 28
Desired extra isize: 28
Journal inode: 8
First orphan inode: 4207998
Default directory hash: half_md4
Directory Hash Seed: 4de319c2-fc2d-4771-b4de-b63acd610ba0
Journal backup: inode blocks
And this is mount options:
UUID=358707f1-8997-4e96-8110-d9f929073e68 / ext4
defaults 1 1
Yes, I forgot to mention that in the deferred write test, turning off
deferred allocation or using preallocation, the problem is largely
gone. I mentioned largely gone because it still happens but much less
frequently.
Thanks.
--Cuong
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Cuong,
>
> Could you please tell us the kernel version? Meanwhile it would be
> better if you could paste the result of the following commands:
> * sudo tune2fs -l ${DEV}
> * cat /proc/mounts | grep ${DEV}
>
> I want to know which feature is enabled in your file system. From your
> description, I guess delayed allocation is enabled. So I suggest that
> you can try to disable it. You can disable it using the following
> command:
> * sudo mount -t ext4 -o remount,nodelalloc ${DEV} ${MNT}
>
> Regards,
> - Zheng
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:17:26PM -0700, Cuong Tran wrote:
>> We have seen GC stalls that are NOT due to memory usage of applications.
>>
>> GC log reports the CPU user and system time of GC threads, which are
>> almost 0, and stop-the-world time, which can be multiple seconds. This
>> indicates GC threads are waiting for IO but GC threads should be
>> CPU-bound in user mode.
>>
>> We could reproduce the problems using a simple Java program that just
>> appends to a log file via log4j. If the test just runs by itself, it
>> does not incur any GC stalls. However, if we run a script that enters
>> a loop to create multiple large file via falloc() and then deletes
>> them, then GC stall of 1+ seconds can happen fairly predictably.
>>
>> We can also reproduce the problem by periodically switch the log and
>> gzip the older log. IO device, a single disk drive, is overloaded by
>> FS flush when this happens.
>>
>> Our guess is GC has to acquiesce its threads and if one of the threads
>> is stuck in the kernel (say in non-interruptible mode). Then GC has to
>> wait until this thread unblocks. In the mean time, it already stops
>> the world.
>>
>> Another test that shows similar problem is doing deferred writes to
>> append a file. Latency of deferred writes is very fast but once a
>> while, it can last more than 1 second.
>>
>> We would really appreciate if you could shed some light on possible
>> causes? (Threads blocked because of journal check point, delayed
>> allocation can't proceed?). We could alleviate the problem by
>> configuring expire_centisecs and writeback_centisecs to flush more
>> frequently, and thus even-out the workload to the disk drive. But we
>> would like to know if there is a methodology to model the rate of
>> flush vs. rate of changes and IO throughput of the drive (SAS, 15K
>> RPM).
>>
>> Many thanks.
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