panic: Journal overflow

[Rong-en Fan]

On 4/26/07, Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 04/26/07 03:32, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> > On 4/26/07, Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On 04/25/07 13:24, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> >>> This is a i386 current SMP box as of Apr 14 or 15. Got
> >>> a panic with geom journal.
> >>>
> >>> panic: Journal overflow (joffset=3246704015360 active=3246705852416 inactive=324
> >>> cpuid = 2
> >>> KDB: stack backtrace:
> >>> db_trace_self_wrapper(c06b3e2c,e5321944,c04fc86e,c06c70c8,2,...) at db_trace_sel
> >>> kdb_backtrace(c06c70c8,2,c06ad0d2,e5321950,5,...) at kdb_backtrace+0x2f
> >>> panic(c06ad0d2,eea3b800,2f3,eebfc000,2f3,...) at panic+0x11f
> >>> g_journal_check_overflow(c4fc5c00,cb030a00,eb,95428000,eb,...) at g_journal_chec
> >>> g_journal_flush(c4fc5c00,0,eb,95428000,eb,...) at g_journal_flush+0x60d
> >>> g_journal_add_current(c4fc5c00,c9cb0948,ca8e818c,c4fc5c00,e5321cbc,...) at g_jou
> >>> g_journal_release_delayed(c4fc5c00,0,ca8e818c,c4fdadc0,2,...) at g_journal_relea
> >>> g_journal_flush_send(c4fc5c00,c8521c60,205d0000,1b2,205d4000,...) at g_journal_f
> >>> g_journal_worker(c4fc5c00,e5321d38,0,0,0,...) at g_journal_worker+0x7f7
> >>> fork_exit(c04b5813,c4fc5c00,e5321d38) at fork_exit+0x83
> >>> fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
> >>> --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xe5321d70, ebp = 0 ---
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, that I don't have core dump available. Will set up next time.
> >>> After the panic, the system hangs at single user prompt:
> >>>
> >>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> >>> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> >>> Loading configuration files.
> >>> kernel dumps on /dev/da0s1b
> >>> Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point kickstart.
> >>> swapon: adding /dev/da0s1b as swap device
> >>> Starting file system checks:
> >>> /dev/da0s1a: 1704 files, 56880 used, 196935 free (631 frags, 24538 blocks, 0.2%
> >>> Can't stat /dev/concat/data.journal: No such file or directory
> >>> /dev/da0s1f: 237 files, 1208 used, 11877856 free (64 frags, 1484724 blocks, 0.0%
> >>> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal concat/data consistent.
> >>> /dev/da0s1e: UNREF FILE I=548536  OWNER=root MODE=100644
> >>> /dev/da0s1e: SIZE=717466 MTIME=Apr  4 07:58 2007  (CLEARED)
> >>> /dev/da0s1e: FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK (SALVAGED)
> >>> /dev/da0s1e: SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD (SALVAGED)
> >>> /dev/da0s1e: BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS (SALVAGED)
> >>> /dev/da0s1e: 190105 files, 763850 used, 2281197 free (36557 frags, 280580 blocks
> >>> /dev/da0s1d: 17507 files, 40158 used, 972857 free (641 frags, 121527 blocks, 0.1
> >>> THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:
> >>>         ufs: /dev/concat/data.journal (/data)
> >>> Unknown error; help!
> >>> AEnter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> >>> # mount -a
> >>> WARNING: R/W mount of /backup denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> >>> mount: /dev/concat/data.journal : Operation not permitted
> >>> # fsck_ffs -p /dev/concat/data.journal
> >>>
> >>> I need to issue 'fsck_ffs -p' myself... any idea about why this happens?
> >>>
> >>> The geom journal setup:
> >>>
> >>> Geom name: gjournal 68372861
> >>> ID: 68372861
> >>> Providers:
> >>> 1. Name: concat/data.journal
> >>>    Mediasize: 3246137539072 (3.0T)
> >>>    Sectorsize: 512
> >>>    Mode: r1w1e1
> >>> Consumers:
> >>> 1. Name: concat/data
> >>>    Mediasize: 3247211281408 (3.0T)
> >>>    Sectorsize: 512
> >>>    Mode: r1w1e1
> >>>    Jend: 3247211280896
> >>>    Jstart: 3246137539072
> >>>    Role: Data,Journal
> >>>
> >>> The gconcat consists two scsi disk (actually, it's raid) da0 and da1.
> >>> Oh no, it panics with journal overflow again while writing this message :(
> >>>
> >>> The data.journal is shared by nfs, and there are two boxes that are
> >>> doing a tar writing operation on this partition.
> >> You need to change your journal switch and cache switch times, to
> >> something like this:
> >>
> >> kern.geom.journal.force_switch=50
> >> kern.geom.journal.cache.switch=75
> >>
> >> Try that and see if that eases your pain a bit.
> >
> > This does not help :(
> > In the past two hours, I tried tuning this two sysctls a bit.
> > The result is panic over 10 times :(
>
>
> How low did you try them?

force_swtich = 10, cache.swtich = 50 and cache is 100MB.

> > I have to remove gjournal on concat/data. I do this following
> >
> > gjournal stop concat/data
> > gjournal clear concat/data
> > tunefs -J disable /dev/concat/data
> >
> > If I want to turn on gjournal someday, can I do it without
> > recreate the filesystem?
>
>
> Without doing any research, I would say 'sure', because I can't think of
> a reason why not.  I think just relabeling it, then turning it on via
> tunefs would do it..

I read gjournal(8), it seems that I can't unless I use
another journal provider...

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

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