On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:19:45AM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > Am 17.04.2012 01:56, schrieb Dave Chinner: > > Your first question should be: is this a known problem? > > And the answer to that is: I don't think so. > Sorry absolutely correct. > > > So, is the system actually hung? > No. The kernel has ended the stalled request. > > > Were there IO errors around this time? > No. > > > did the system recover and continue to work normally? > Yes. > > > What's your storage hardware, application, workload, etc? > It a Raid 10 of 1TB SATA Drives in front of a 3Ware Controller doing > heavy rsync backups. Hmmm. It sounds like it is just taking a long time for the IO to complete, not that there is any other problem. If the IO is realy, really slow, the a log force is definitely a place it coul dstall for some time. Does the RAID controller have a BBWC? What IO scheduler are you using? Does mounting with nobarriers reduce the stall time? Can you reduce the IO load so that it doesn't end up in this state? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
