I have opened a case with 3ware about this, but I do not believe the 3ware
card is at fault, it appears something to do with X or the memory subsystem.
This is not easily reproducible and does not occur often. Maybe once or twice
per month, if that, hopefully someone can make out what is happening in the
trace below?
KERNEL:
# uname -a
Linux p34.internal.lan 2.6.28 #9 SMP Thu Jan 1 08:07:31 EST 2009 x86_64
GNU/Linux
PROBLEM:
During I/O to the 3ware RAID (at least in the past 3-4 previous cases when it
occured), the system stops all I/O to all processes that are have I/O to
perform on the 3ware card. I did a lot of analysis which is shown at the
bottom of this e-mail.
ODDITY:
After all of the diagnostics I did below(!), what ended up "bringing" the
system back to life? I moved the mouse cursor on the local machine (I run X)
and it uses the Intel graphics (Intel DG965WH motherboard), once I logged in,
the ENTIRE system became responsive again, what the heck!? All of the
processes in D-state were now freed! I have taken an echo t >
/proc/sysrq-trigger, hopefully someone can shed some light on this? It
almost seems like the memory/MTRR(?) is stomping the other memory that is
used by the system?
QUESTION: Why??
At the bottom of this e-mail (and also the 3ware ticket):
Request:- 31st January 2009 at 2:24
Just as I was about to give up, I went to the machine, woke up the
screensaver (moved mouse) and logged in and then EVERYTHING started working
again??
NOTE:
After all of this, I re-ran the unrar, it worked fine. My guess is X is
doing
something very strange with the memory? I can try running no X for awhile
and see if that gets rid of the problem? Is that the recommended course of
action, are there other things I can try to debug this problem further? Has
anyone ever seen anything like this?
CONFIG:
http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/20090131/config-2.6.28.txt
LOGS: (from Xorg.log)
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "DEL", prod id 40984
(II) intel(0): Output VGA connected
(II) intel(0): Output VGA using initial mode 1680x1050
(II) intel(0): detected 512 kB GTT.
(II) intel(0): detected 7676 kB stolen memory. <- Is this of interest?
(==) intel(0): video overlay key set to 0x101fe
(==) intel(0): Will not try to enable page flipping
(==) intel(0): Triple buffering disabled
(==) intel(0): Intel XvMC decoder disabled
(==) intel(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) intel(0): Display dimensions: (430, 270) mm
(**) intel(0): DPI set to (99, 158)
KERNEL OPTIONS: (of interest?):
| | [*] MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support | |
| | [*] MTRR cleanup support | |
| | (0) MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1) | |
| | (1) MTRR cleanup spare reg num (0-7) | |
| | [*] x86 PAT support | |
Should I consider disabling MTRR, x86 PAT support or both? To see if the
problem recurs? Are there any other kernel options I have enabled that could
lead to this problem?
LSPCI:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev
02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev
02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G965 Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 HECI
Controller (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2
(rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3
(rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4
(rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5
(rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HH (ICH8DH) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 6 port
SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
02)
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9650SE SATA-II RAID (rev 01)
03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port
PATA133 interface (rev b1)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 02)
07:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet
Controller
INTERRUPTS:
# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
0: 8722 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 3 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
16: 10253239 34561425 28715428 20097192 IO-APIC-fasteoi 3w-9xxx,
uhci_hcd:usb3
18: 1532 38 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi
ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb7
19: 43319 66498 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb6
21: 1503630 282221348 34906481 251529888 IO-APIC-fasteoi
uhci_hcd:usb4, eth1
22: 3041085 50898734 44446192 106189021 IO-APIC-fasteoi HDA
Intel, eth2
23: 13630119 27422086 1544853 13244 IO-APIC-fasteoi
ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5
375: 3059314 15607219 8335846 3335608 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
376: 2259672 275715231 18496746 107799784 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
377: 2653268 4958739 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge
i915@pci:0000:00:02.0
NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 2603771749 2610047685 2594237486 2589369293 Local timer interrupts
RES: 5511462 1894029 4550761 1766978 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 15747 15686 15135 6535 Function call interrupts
TLB: 749115 747241 962808 893832 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
DETAILS (warning! very long):
Request:- 31st January 2009 at 1:45
This problem has happened 3 or 4 times now, it is very strange, it
occurs across several kernels, the one I am running now is (2.6.28). It
occurs across two schedulers (so it is unlikely the kernel); noop and
deadline.
Essentially what happens is all I/O is blocked during decompression of a file
and it stays that way:
Extracting from backup.r81
... backup-20090101.img
87%
Extracting from backup.r82
... backup-20090101.img
88%
Extracting from backup.r83
... backup-20090101.img
89%
Extracting from backup.r84
... backup-20090101.img
90%
Here, it is *stuck* at 90%:
PID USER PR NI VIRT SWAP RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME P COMMAND
348 user 20 0 18616 16m 1572 1108 R 100 0.0 21:59 0 unrar
It sits at 100%, this has happened during VERIFYs and also when the system is
just plain idle. It seems to be a very nasty bug because the process _never_
seems to complete.
When this bug occurs, it appears all I/O to the array is blocked:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=create_file bs=1M count=1024
It just sits there, when I try to strace the process, I get nothing:
$ strace -p 770
Process 770 attached - interrupt to quit
I tried some things:
# /opt/3ware/9500/tw_cli /c0 set verify=5
Setting Verify Rate on /c0 to 5 (Fastest I/O)...Done.
# /opt/3ware/9500/tw_cli /c0 set verify=1
Setting Verify Rate on /c0 to 1 (Fastest Verify)...Done.
# /opt/3ware/9500/tw_cli /c0 set verify=3
Setting Verify Rate on /c0 to 3 (Balanced Verify and I/O )...Done.
No difference.
In its current failure mode:
//p34> info c0
Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u0 RAID-6 VERIFYING - 91%(A) 64K 12107.1 ON ON u1
SPARE OK - - - 931.505 - ON
It is verifying, maybe it will 'unblock' the I/O when its done verifying?
As you can see, the box is stagnant during this problem:
$ vmstat 1
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
5 0 83104 47396 136 6586588 0 0 580 442 3 0 1 1 98
0
5 0 83104 47380 136 6586612 0 0 0 0 4143 129 0 25 75
0
5 0 83104 47380 136 6586612 0 0 0 0 4063 147 0 25 75
0
5 0 83104 47380 136 6586612 0 0 0 0 4052 139 0 25 75
0
5 0 83104 47256 136 6586612 0 0 0 0 4137 199 0 25 75
0
5 0 83104 47256 136 6586612 0 0 0 0 4916 160 0 25 75
0
Here is an iostat on the device (/dev/sda):
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.00 0.00 25.00 0.00 0.00 75.00
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.00 0.00 25.06 0.00 0.00 74.94
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.00 0.00 25.00 0.00 0.00 75.00
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.00 0.00 25.06 0.00 0.00 74.94
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
I will let it sit for now and see if it "comes to" after the VERIFY is
complete. In the interim I have attached the tw_cli /c0 show diag output,
but that looks normal as well, at least the most recent output, this looks
like it could be a deeper bug than just something on the surface.
The 25% is probably 1 of the CPUs (quad core) pegged at 100% trying to get
I/O and the controller is not allowing it!
This problem was *NEVER* experienced when I was not using the 3ware card, it
only happened after I began using this card in my machine.
# /opt/3ware/9500/tw_cli /c0 show all
/c0 Driver Version = 2.26.02.011
/c0 Model = 9650SE-16ML
/c0 Available Memory = 224MB
/c0 Firmware Version = FE9X 4.06.00.004
/c0 Bios Version = BE9X 4.05.00.015
/c0 Boot Loader Version = BL9X 3.08.00.001
/c0 Serial Number = [[ snip ]]
/c0 PCB Version = Rev 032
/c0 PCHIP Version = 2.00
/c0 ACHIP Version = 1.90
/c0 Number of Ports = 16
/c0 Number of Drives = 16
/c0 Number of Units = 2
/c0 Total Optimal Units = 2
/c0 Not Optimal Units = 0 /c0 JBOD Export Policy = off
/c0 Disk Spinup Policy = 1
/c0 Spinup Stagger Time Policy (sec) = 1
/c0 Auto-Carving Policy = off
/c0 Auto-Carving Size = 2048 GB
/c0 Auto-Rebuild Policy = on
/c0 Controller Bus Type = PCIe
/c0 Controller Bus Width = 8 lanes
/c0 Controller Bus Speed = 2.5 Gbps/lane
Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u0 RAID-6 VERIFYING - 92%(A) 64K 12107.1 ON ON u1
SPARE OK - - - 931.505 - ON
Port Status Unit Size Blocks Serial
---------------------------------------------------------------
p0 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p1 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p2 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p3 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p4 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p5 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p6 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p7 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p8 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p9 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p10 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p11 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p12 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p13 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p14 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
p15 OK u1 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-...
Name OnlineState BBUReady Status Volt Temp Hours LastCapTest
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
bbu On Yes OK OK OK 255 28-Dec-2008
Once this is "over" then I can attach the tw_cli diag output right now its
locking/blocking any I/O, I cannot even ssh to the host, even though the root
partition/drives are not on the 3ware controller!!
root 8694 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D Jan29 2:21 [pdflush]
root 2226 0.0 0.0 10100 404 ? Ds Jan01 0:14
/sbin/syslogd -r
Lots of processes in D-state.
Request:- 31st January 2009 at 2:8
Nope, its still LOCKED/blocked/etc:
# /opt/3ware/9500/tw_cli info c0
Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u0 RAID-6 OK - - 64K 12107.1 ON ON u1
SPARE OK - - - 931.505 - ON
Port Status Unit Size Blocks Serial
---------------------------------------------------------------
p0 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p1 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p2 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p3 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p4 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p5 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p6 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p7 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p8 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p9 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p10 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p11 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p12 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p13 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p14 OK u0 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
p15 OK u1 931.51 GB 1953525168 WD-
Name OnlineState BBUReady Status Volt Temp Hours LastCapTest
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
bbu On Yes OK OK OK 255 28-Dec-2008
Completely blocking all I/O..
p34:~# ps auxww | grep -i unrar
user 348 99.6 0.0 18616 1572 pts/19 R+ 04:05 60:59 unrar x
backup01.rar
root 865 0.0 0.0 4220 724 pts/29 S+ 05:06 0:00 grep -i
unrar
p34:~# kill -9 348
p34:~# p34:~# killall -9 dd
p34:~#
Still...... BLOCKED...
Request:- 31st January 2009 at 2:13
I was able to get a call trace, when I tried to write it to a file
though, it was BLOCKED, so this is from a free ssh session I had open:
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264979>] autoremove_wake_function+0x9/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8024597a>] __wake_up_common+0x5a/0x90
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80608ced>] schedule_timeout+0xad/0xf0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264a83>] prepare_to_wait_exclusive+0x23/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dcad6>] unix_wait_for_peer+0x86/0xd0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80575cd7>] memcpy_fromiovec+0x57/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dd170>] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x450/0x5a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056d77b>] sock_sendmsg+0xcb/0x100
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802af076>] do_path_lookup+0xd6/0x1a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802af15d>] kern_path+0x1d/0x40
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8025408e>] current_fs_time+0x1e/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802baa9d>] mnt_want_write+0x2d/0xa0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802bb637>] mntput_no_expire+0x27/0x140
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dccc2>] unix_find_other+0x1a2/0x200
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056cd62>] sockfd_lookup_light+0x22/0x90
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056db89>] sys_sendto+0x119/0x180
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dd5ba>] unix_dgram_connect+0xaa/0x250
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056d046>] sys_connect+0x86/0xe0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] cron S ffff88022aae7bc8 0 861 3044
[2578818.429166] ffff8801005b9b88 0000000000000086 00007f68d6c77000
ffffe2000453ab70
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff8801005b5260 ffff880211f8f160
ffff8801005b5490
[2578818.429166] 000000032abe1b60 ffff8801005b9d18 ffff8801005b5490
ffffffff8028b45b
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8028b45b>] handle_mm_fault+0x2bb/0x7a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80608ced>] schedule_timeout+0xad/0xf0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264a83>] prepare_to_wait_exclusive+0x23/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dcad6>] unix_wait_for_peer+0x86/0xd0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80575cd7>] memcpy_fromiovec+0x57/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dd170>] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x450/0x5a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056d77b>] sock_sendmsg+0xcb/0x100
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802af076>] do_path_lookup+0xd6/0x1a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802af15d>] kern_path+0x1d/0x40
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8025408e>] current_fs_time+0x1e/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802baa9d>] mnt_want_write+0x2d/0xa0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802bb637>] mntput_no_expire+0x27/0x140
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dccc2>] unix_find_other+0x1a2/0x200
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056cd62>] sockfd_lookup_light+0x22/0x90
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056db89>] sys_sendto+0x119/0x180
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dd5ba>] unix_dgram_connect+0xaa/0x250
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056d046>] sys_connect+0x86/0xe0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] cron S 00000000ffffffff 0 862 3044
[2578818.429166] ffff8801005bbb88 0000000000000086 00007f68d6c77000
ffffe2000453ab70
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff8801005b4cf0 ffff88022b8950e0
ffff8801005b4f20
[2578818.429166] 0000000129928420 0000000199ae5567 ffff8801005b4f20
ffffffff8028b45b
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8028b45b>] handle_mm_fault+0x2bb/0x7a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80608ced>] schedule_timeout+0xad/0xf0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264a83>] prepare_to_wait_exclusive+0x23/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dcad6>] unix_wait_for_peer+0x86/0xd0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80575cd7>] memcpy_fromiovec+0x57/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dd170>] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x450/0x5a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056d77b>] sock_sendmsg+0xcb/0x100
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802af076>] do_path_lookup+0xd6/0x1a0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802af15d>] kern_path+0x1d/0x40
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8025408e>] current_fs_time+0x1e/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802baa9d>] mnt_want_write+0x2d/0xa0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802bb637>] mntput_no_expire+0x27/0x140
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dccc2>] unix_find_other+0x1a2/0x200
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056cd62>] sockfd_lookup_light+0x22/0x90
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056db89>] sys_sendto+0x119/0x180
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805dd5ba>] unix_dgram_connect+0xaa/0x250
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056d046>] sys_connect+0x86/0xe0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Request:- 31st January 2009 at 2:16
These are the 'optimizations' I use on this array:
echo 128 > /sys/block/$i/queue/max_sectors_kb # 128 is default
echo 512 > /sys/block/$i/queue/nr_requests # 128 is default
# echo 254 > /sys/block/$i/device/queue_depth # 254 is default
echo deadline > /sys/block/$i/queue/scheduler # distribution dependent
blockdev --setra 16384 /dev/$i # set readahead
In the past I had been able to kill the process(es) involved or they died
eventually, however, this does not seem to be the case this time, I still
cannot get my system back!
Request:- 31st January 2009 at 2:20
Here is more of the echo t > sysrq-trigger:
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805de205>] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x3b5/0x3d0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80608ced>] schedule_timeout+0xad/0xf0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264b03>] prepare_to_wait+0x23/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805ddc92>] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x432/0x5f0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802aeb6c>] __link_path_walk+0xdbc/0xf20
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056c60f>] sock_aio_read+0x14f/0x160
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802a3ed3>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x130
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802a4b3e>] vfs_read+0x15e/0x170
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802a4c53>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] sshd S 00000000ffffffff 0 32669 32667
[2578818.429166] ffff8801c4b15998 0000000000000086 ffffffff80755008
ffffffff8040c2c0
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff88022b968700 ffff88022b8f2bb0
ffff88022b968930
[2578818.429166] 0000000328057c18 0000000199b05a5c ffff88022b968930
ffff8801c4b159a8
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8040c2c0>] rb_insert_color+0x100/0x130
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8026800f>] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0xdf/0x1b0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80267eb9>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x39/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80609415>] schedule_hrtimeout_range+0xb5/0x150
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802678e0>] hrtimer_wakeup+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802b35d9>] do_select+0x539/0x630
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802b3d30>] __pollwait+0x0/0x130
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80575f57>] memcpy_toiovec+0x57/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8060a529>] _spin_lock_bh+0x9/0x20
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056fcc3>] release_sock+0x13/0xa0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805ab7dc>] tcp_recvmsg+0x32c/0x940
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056f110>] sock_common_recvmsg+0x30/0x50
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056c60f>] sock_aio_read+0x14f/0x160
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802b38cf>] core_sys_select+0x1ff/0x310
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80240bb0>] do_page_fault+0x2f0/0x980
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8026aa98>] getnstimeofday+0x48/0xc0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802308b9>] read_tsc+0x9/0x20
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8026aa98>] getnstimeofday+0x48/0xc0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802b3c71>] sys_select+0x51/0x110
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] bash S 00000000ffffffff 0 32670 32669
[2578818.429166] ffff88022607de88 0000000000000082 ffff8800b773cc60
00000000006c4e5c
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff8801006a8410 ffffffff8071a340
ffff8801006a8640
[2578818.429166] 00000000006a8410 000000019977482f ffff8801006a8640
ffffffff807258c8
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8045be2b>] tty_check_change+0x11b/0x130
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8025191e>] session_of_pgrp+0xe/0x50
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8045c6f2>] tty_ioctl+0x8b2/0x920
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80252872>] do_wait+0x272/0x350
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802529e5>] sys_wait4+0x95/0xf0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] sr S 00000000ffffffff 0 32677 32670
[2578818.429166] ffff88008f50fe88 0000000000000086 ffff88010ccebbb8
00000000006c4e5c
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff880148a6f260 ffffffff8071a340
ffff880148a6f490
[2578818.429166] 0000000048a6f260 000000019977482f ffff880148a6f490
ffffffff807258c8
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80252872>] do_wait+0x272/0x350
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802529e5>] sys_wait4+0x95/0xf0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] screen S 00000000ffffffff 0 32683 32677
[2578818.429166] ffff88020a9e5f68 0000000000000086 ffff88022ba8f160
ffff88020a9e5f28
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff88022ba8f160 ffff88022b8950e0
ffff88022ba8f390
[2578818.429166] 000000015afa2f00 0000000199b0f5e0 ffff88022ba8f390
00007fff5afa5be2
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80253955>] alarm_setitimer+0x35/0x70
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8025a2e9>] sys_pause+0x19/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] sshd S 00000000ffffffff 0 32684 10156
[2578818.429166] ffff880198c4bbe8 0000000000000082 ffff880228808000
ffff880198c4bb68
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff880100552090 ffff88022b8f2bb0
ffff8801005522c0
[2578818.429166] 0000000398c4bb68 000000019977506f ffff8801005522c0
ffff8800058e33c0
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805de205>] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x3b5/0x3d0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80608ced>] schedule_timeout+0xad/0xf0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264b03>] prepare_to_wait+0x23/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805ddc92>] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x432/0x5f0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802aeb6c>] __link_path_walk+0xdbc/0xf20
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056c60f>] sock_aio_read+0x14f/0x160
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802a3ed3>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x130
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802a4b3e>] vfs_read+0x15e/0x170
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802a4c53>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8022986b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[2578818.429166] sshd S 00000000ffffffff 0 32686 32684
[2578818.429166] ffff880040dff998 0000000000000086 ffff880040dff9a8
ffffffff8040c250
[2578818.429166] ffffffff807cd000 ffff8801e96411e0 ffff88022b8f2bb0
ffff8801e9641410
[2578818.429166] 0000000328057c18 0000000199b0a381 ffff8801e9641410
ffff880040dff9a8
[2578818.429166] Call Trace:
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8040c250>] rb_insert_color+0x90/0x130
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8026800f>] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0xdf/0x1b0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80267eb9>] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x39/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80609415>] schedule_hrtimeout_range+0xb5/0x150
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802678e0>] hrtimer_wakeup+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802b35d9>] do_select+0x539/0x630
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802b3d30>] __pollwait+0x0/0x130
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80575f57>] memcpy_toiovec+0x57/0x80
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8060a529>] _spin_lock_bh+0x9/0x20
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056fcc3>] release_sock+0x13/0xa0
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff805ab7dc>] tcp_recvmsg+0x32c/0x940
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056f110>] sock_common_recvmsg+0x30/0x50
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8056c60f>] sock_aio_read+0x14f/0x160
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff802b38cf>] core_sys_select+0x1ff/0x310
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff8045e7a1>] n_tty_read+0x371/0x870
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80264970>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x30
[2578818.429166] [<ffffffff80249e30>] default_wake_fun
Request:- 31st January 2009 at 2:24
Just as I was about to give up, I went to the machine, woke up the
screensaver (moved mouse) and logged in and then EVERYTHING started working
again??
