5.2-RELEASE - Show stopper problem
Ted Wisniewski
ted at ness.plymouth.edu
Thu Jan 15 13:29:55 PST 2004
I have some followup details that I have discovered that make
make a difference in nailing this down.
I tried to duplicate the hung process on disk I/O problem on
an older (hence slower machine) and was unable to duplicate it. This got
me to thinking about the problems I have experienced; It appears that
the faster the machine the more likely the problem is to occur. So,
with my new dual-3.06 Ghz server I could reproduce the Disk (getblk) state
at will. ON the slower 2.0 Ghz I had to work at it a bit but I could
reproduce it. ON the 400Mhz (Dell PE 4300) unable to re-create (well at least
I have not been able to yet). If someone has things to try, I will give it a
whirl.
Ted
(* (* In the last episode (Jan 11), Ted Wisniewski said:
(* (* > Thanks for your response... As you can see in this output from the
(* (* > ps command you suggested, the processes are dfinitely waiting on the
(* (* > disk. BTW.. The syste in question was a fresh install from yesterday
(* (* > with no users other than myself (I did the cvsup to get it to
(* (* > 5.2-RELEASE). It did hang when I did that with a similar result.
(* (* > One of the "install -s etc.." processes went into the same state.
(* (*
(* (* Are you seeing any errors in dmesg or /var/log/messages? I haven't
(* (* seen any other reports of I/O hanging, so it might still be something
(* (* to do with your hardware or kernel config.
(*
(* No messages at all in /var/log/messages. I am using the generic
(* kernel in one instance and a custom one in another. For the machine I sent
(* the "ps" info it is a Dell power edge 2650 running a generic kernel. The
(* disk is configuration is a big raid 5 memory is 2G. Since I can duplicate
(* (seemingly at will) on a number of different systems, I doubt it is specific
(* to one machines hardware (3 dell servers of differeing models, 1 dell PC,
(* and 3 noname brand PC's).
(*
(* (* > On my test system the machine will run for days with this happening,
(* (* > however, I have another system that is actually doing a lot of
(* (* > I/O.... eventually it crashes (well locks up completely)... If
(* (* > there is any particular info you might need, I am willing to do what
(* (* > I can.
(* (*
(* (* If you can drop into ddb when it's locked up, I think there are some
(* (* commands you can run to print the kernel locks held by all the
(* (* processes, but I'm not sure what they are or how to interpret the
(* (* results.
(*
(* When it locks up... It is literally frozen... Only a power off
(* will cure. I have occasionally seen a "page not present" panic.. Most
(* of the time the processes just start to pile up accessing the same place(s)
(* on disk. None being able to be killed, and always when I reboot the system
(* after this there is a message about not being able to write buffers... giving up...
(*
(*
(*
(* Ted
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