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From: "Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdflush and postgres stuck in D state
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:30:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010918193023.P29908@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010918125605.F29908@unthought.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010918125605.F29908@unthought.net>; from jakob@unthought.net on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:56:05PM +0200


Sorry for following up on my own post, I have a little extra
information.

I started a g++ job to try to force the machine to write out some dirty
buffers before I reboot.   g++ now hangs along with two sync's, bdflush
and the postgres process.

This is from top:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE WCHAN     STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAN
    6 root       9   0     0    0     0 raid1_all DW    0.0  0.0   0:26 bdflush
 1140 joe        9   0 71564  39M     0 wait_on_b D     0.0 32.3   1:04 cc1plus
 1007 root       9   0    72    4     4 wait_on_b D     0.0  0.0   0:00 sync
10023 postgres   9   0   368    4     4 wait_on_b D     0.0  0.0   0:00 postmas


Seems like something's rotten with bdflush and raid1_all (-something).

There is one (software) RAID1 on four SCSI disks in the machine, perhaps RAID1
has a misfeature when more than just two disks are in the mirror ?

Anyway, this machine is going down now - I can't wait anymore, sorry. I wonder
how many file writes didn't make it...

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-18 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-18 10:56 bdflush and postgres stuck in D state Jakob Østergaard
2001-09-18 17:30 ` Jakob Østergaard [this message]
2001-09-18 17:49   ` Andrew Morton
2001-09-18 21:08     ` David Rees
2001-09-19  9:26       ` Jakob Østergaard

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