Hey Josef, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:11:40AM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > Greetings! I have a file server that get a pretty nasty load (about 15 > million files created every day). After some time, I noticed that the load > average spiked up from the usual 30 to about 180. dmesg revealed: > > [434042.318401] INFO: task php:2185 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > [434042.318403] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > [434042.318405] php D 000000010675d6cd 0 2185 27306 0x00000000 > [434042.318408] ffff88008d735a48 0000000000000086 ffff88008d735938 ffffffff00000000 > [434042.318412] ffff88008d734010 ffff88000e28e340 0000000000012000 ffff88008d735fd8 > [434042.318416] ffff88008d735fd8 0000000000012000 ffff8807ef9966c0 ffff88000e28e340 > [434042.318419] Call Trace: > [434042.318442] [<ffffffffa0087a9b>] ? xfs_trans_brelse+0xee/0xf7 [xfs] > [434042.318464] [<ffffffffa00689de>] ? xfs_da_brelse+0x71/0x96 [xfs] > [434042.318485] [<ffffffffa006df10>] ? xfs_dir2_leaf_lookup_int+0x211/0x225 [xfs] > [434042.318489] [<ffffffff8141481e>] schedule+0x55/0x57 > [434042.318512] [<ffffffffa0083de2>] xlog_reserveq_wait+0x115/0x1c0 [xfs] > [434042.318515] [<ffffffff810381f1>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x23d/0x23d > [434042.318539] [<ffffffffa0083f45>] xlog_grant_log_space+0xb8/0x1be [xfs] > [434042.318562] [<ffffffffa0084164>] xfs_log_reserve+0x119/0x133 [xfs] > [434042.318585] [<ffffffffa0080cf1>] xfs_trans_reserve+0xca/0x199 [xfs] > [434042.318605] [<ffffffffa00500dc>] xfs_create+0x18d/0x467 [xfs] > [434042.318623] [<ffffffffa00485be>] xfs_vn_mknod+0xa0/0xf9 [xfs] > [434042.318640] [<ffffffffa0048632>] xfs_vn_create+0xb/0xd [xfs] > [434042.318644] [<ffffffff810f0c5d>] vfs_create+0x6e/0x9e > [434042.318647] [<ffffffff810f1c5e>] do_last+0x302/0x642 > [434042.318651] [<ffffffff810f2068>] path_openat+0xca/0x344 > [434042.318654] [<ffffffff810f23d1>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x87 > [434042.318658] [<ffffffff810fb22e>] ? alloc_fd+0x76/0x11e > [434042.318661] [<ffffffff810e40b1>] do_sys_open+0x10b/0x1a4 > [434042.318664] [<ffffffff810e4173>] sys_open+0x1b/0x1d > > It makes sense that'd the load average would spike up if some major lock got > held longer than it should have been. > > The box has 32GB RAM, 6 cores, and it's running 3.2.2. > > I've looked at the commits in the stable tree since 3.2.2 was tagged, and I > do see a couple of useful commits so I'll try to get the kernel updated > anyway but I don't quite see any of those fixes addressing this "hang". I was about to suggest that 9f9c19e 'xfs: fix the logspace waiting algorithm' is probably what you need... but that's already in 3.2.2. Hrm. -Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
