On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 11:50:57PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > thanks very much for your quick and detailled answer! > OK, 32GB RAM, no obvious shortage, no dirty or writeback data. > 2TB SATA drives, 32AGs, only unusual setting is 64k directory block > size. > yes, the 64k was taken from a too quickly read of advice, I don't think it's of any help on a ceph cluster but I'm not an FS guru. Is there a way to lower it at runtime? > Yup, there's your problem: > [...] > Which, I think, is pretty easy to do. Yup, barely smoke tested patch > below that demonstrates the fix. Beware - patch may eat babies and > ask for more. Use it at your own risk! > unfortunatly I cannot test this patch because: - it's a production cluster and it's currently hard for me to reboot nodes (not enough nodes ;)) - just after hiting this problem I saw a kernel 3.11 available on Debian backports and decided to upgrade the whole cluster. since this upgrade, there is no problems anymore ... I cross my fingers ;) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
