From: Kelly Sauke <ksauke@fastenal.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Creating snapshot causes processes hang?
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:28:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43677B70.2010305@fastenal.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4366CE49.1000501@nttdata.co.jp>
Snapshots in RHEL 4 are broken. We've had to move to veritas after Redhat told
us that they would not support snapshots in RHEL 4.
Satoshi Nagayasu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm testing PostgreSQL(RDBMS) backup using LVM2 snapshot on RHEL4.
>
> After creating a snapshot, some processes (kjournald,
> one PostgreSQL backend and others) go to iowait status,
> and they never come back. (see pid 8105 and 2973 in below)
>
> In this situation, one PostgreSQL backend process is waiting
> in COMMIT processing(it generates fsync() on logical volume),
> and also kjournald is waiting something.
>
> There is no kernel oops, and the processors are not used.
>
> When I set an PostgreSQL option not to generate fsync
> on COMMIT, it looks work well. No process hangs.
>
> I guess some race conditions is occured around kjournald.
>
> Any comments and suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
> ------------------------------------
> # uname -a
> Linux st17 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> # df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5 20161172 6717648 12419384 36% /
> /dev/sda1 202219 11423 180356 6% /boot
> none 1037448 0 1037448 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/vg0-pgdata
> 1032088 515532 464128 53% /pgdata
> # ps ax
> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> 1 ? S 0:00 init [3]
> 2 ? S 0:00 [migration/0]
> 3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
> 4 ? S 0:00 [migration/1]
> 5 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
> 6 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]
> 7 ? S< 0:00 [events/1]
> 8 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]
> 9 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid]
> 30 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0]
> 31 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/1]
> 44 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0]
> 45 ? S< 0:00 [aio/1]
> 32 ? S 0:00 [khubd]
> 43 ? S 0:11 [kswapd0]
> 118 ? S 0:00 [kseriod]
> 186 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
> 201 ? S 0:17 [kjournald]
> 1157 ? S<s 0:00 udevd
> 1342 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
> 1761 ? Ss 0:00 syslogd -m 0
> 1765 ? Ss 0:00 klogd -x
> 1776 ? Ss 0:00 irqbalance
> 1794 ? Ss 0:00 portmap
> 1814 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd
> 1913 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.idmapd
> 1990 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid
> 2003 ? Ss 0:00 cupsd
> 2042 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
> 2116 ? Ss 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
> 2126 ? Ss 0:00 gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
> 2169 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/htt -retryonerror 0
> 2170 ? S 0:00 htt_server -nodaemon
> 2182 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cannaserver -syslog -u canna
> 2233 ? Ss 0:00 crond
> 2274 ? Ss 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon
> 2293 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
> 2303 ? Ssl 0:00 dbus-daemon-1 --system
> 2317 ? Ss 0:00 cups-config-daemon
> 2328 ? Ss 0:01 hald
> 2338 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2339 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
> 2340 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
> 2341 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
> 2342 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
> 2343 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
> 2885 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: snaga [priv]
> 2887 ? S 0:00 sshd: snaga@pts/0
> 2888 pts/0 Ss 0:00 -bash
> 2908 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: snaga [priv]
> 2910 ? S 0:00 sshd: snaga@pts/1
> 2911 pts/1 Ss 0:00 -bash
> 2931 pts/1 S 0:00 su
> 2932 pts/1 S 0:00 bash
> 2973 ? D 0:31 [kjournald]
> 2980 ? S 0:54 [rpciod]
> 2981 ? S 0:00 [lockd]
> 3016 pts/0 S 0:00 su
> 3017 pts/0 S 0:00 bash
> 3035 pts/0 S 0:00 su postgres
> 3036 pts/0 S 0:00 bash
> 7866 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh ./pgbench_lvm.sh
> 7906 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh ./pgbench_lvm.sh
> 7907 pts/0 S+ 0:00 sed -e s/^/lvm:/
> 7915 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /usr/local/pgsql81b3/bin/postmaster -D /pgdata/data
> 7917 pts/0 S+ 0:03 postgres: writer process
> 7918 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: archiver process
> 7919 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: stats buffer process
> 7920 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: stats collector process
> 8015 ? S 0:01 [pdflush]
> 8094 pts/0 S+ 0:01 pgbench -s 10 -t 1000 -c 16 pgbench
> 8096 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] COMMIT
> 8097 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8098 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8099 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8100 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8101 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8102 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8103 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] COMMIT
> 8104 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8105 pts/0 D+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] COMMIT
> 8106 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] COMMIT
> 8107 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] COMMIT
> 8108 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8109 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8110 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] UPDATE waiting
> 8111 pts/0 S+ 0:00 postgres: postgres pgbench [local] COMMIT
> 8119 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
> 8147 ? S< 0:00 [kcopyd]
> 8179 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
> 8188 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ax
> # cat /etc/issue
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)
> Kernel \r on an \m
>
> #
> ------------------------------------
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-01 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-01 2:09 [linux-lvm] Creating snapshot causes processes hang? Satoshi Nagayasu
2005-11-01 14:28 ` Kelly Sauke [this message]
2005-11-01 21:24 ` Mike Snitzer
2005-11-01 22:02 ` Kelly Sauke
[not found] <20051101220316.6F44973980@hormel.redhat.com>
2005-11-01 23:20 ` James G. Sack (jim)
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