mirror/stripe freezing under FreeBSD 5.5

Rex Roof rexroof at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 10:06:08 PDT 2006


can I do that without corrupting my data?
how would that be done?


On 9/29/06, R. B. Riddick <arne_woerner at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Rex Roof <rexroof at gmail.com> wrote:
> > as you can see, they say DIRTY.   a few seconds later they changed to CLEAN.
> > I'm noticing now that they're changing back and forth rather frequently.
> > perhaps once a minute;  much more often than the freezing is happening.
> >
> That seems to be normal, when there is write activity:
> % touch a ; gmirror list | grep DIRTY
>    Flags: DIRTY
>    Flags: DIRTY
>    Flags: DIRTY
>    Flags: DIRTY
> % sleep 5
> % gmirror list | grep DIRTY
> %
>
> I dont know, what could cause the strange behaviour...
>
> Maybe u should try to increase the stripe size and the slice size to 128KB or
> so?
>
> -Arne
>
>
> ---
>
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