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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Marcin M <gmane@mejor.pl>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: tasks hangs in D state while writing to xfs
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:09:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111015220922.GR3159@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j7bs98$5bs$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +0200, Marcin M wrote:
> Hello!
> I've noticed strange problem with xfs. I've created filesystem with
> blocksize=1024 and log as small as it possible. Next i'm copying files
> using rsync, after sometime rsync hangs in D state. So i can't kill it,
> i've got to reboot hosts. In dmesg i'm getting such messages:

Known problem - it's a log space hang. You can often get stuff
moving again via "echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches".

That said, Christoph's fixes for the 3.0.x kernel series are here:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-10/msg00305.html

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-15 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-15 11:54 tasks hangs in D state while writing to xfs Marcin M
2011-10-15 12:28 ` Marcin M
2011-10-15 16:04   ` Amit Sahrawat
2011-10-15 17:45     ` Marcin Mirosław
2011-10-15 22:09 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-10-15 22:16   ` Marcin Mirosław
2011-10-16 11:48   ` Marcin Mirosław
2011-10-16 12:35     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-16 13:38       ` Marcin Mirosław
2011-10-16 16:05         ` Christoph Hellwig

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