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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Vasily Tarasov <tarasov@vasily.name>
Cc: Michael Mattsson <michael.mattsson@gmail.com>,
	"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fio hangs with --status-interval
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:56:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D61053.9030902@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFTzLMPE+h_v8ydUP+iuCwJErQLuU=ZNcuKKcuxuZztandp+mQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2014-07-25 18:34, Vasily Tarasov wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> You'll be surprised but it did not help :( I used the latest code from
> git (fio-2.1.11-10-gae7e, commit ae7e050). Still see the same picture.

That's actually good news, since it didn't make a lot of sense. So lets 
see if we can't get to the bottom of this...

> I don't know if it helps, but I see this behavior on a machine with
> 96GB of RAM. So, after buffered writes are over, fio waits for a long
> time till all dirty buffers hit the disk. But, even after there is no
> more disk activity, fio is still stuck for as long as I don't kill it.
>
> Regarding the number of threads. I do understand where the 3 threads
> can come from:
>
> 1) Backend thread (sort of a manager)
> 1) Worker thread(s)
> 2) Disk stats thread
>
> I my case I defined only one job instance, so I suppose there always
> should be only one worker thread. I don't understand how the total
> number of threads go to 10 in the end.
>
> <snip starts>
> $ ps -eLf | grep fio
> root      4427  4135  4427  0   15 07:44 pts/1    00:00:02 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4636  0   15 07:56 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4637  0   15 07:57 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4638  0   15 07:57 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4647  0   15 07:57 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4650  0   15 07:57 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4651  0   15 07:57 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4652  0   15 07:57 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4653  0   15 07:58 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4654  0   15 07:58 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4663  0   15 07:58 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4664  0   15 07:58 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4666  0   15 07:58 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4668  0   15 07:58 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> root      4427  4135  4669  0   15 07:59 pts/1    00:00:00 fio
> --minimal --status-interval 10 1.fio
> <snip ends>

Can you try and gdb attach to it when it's hung and produce a new 
backtrace? It can't be off the final status run, I wonder if it's off 
the mutex down and remove instead.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-28  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-09 22:56 fio hangs with --status-interval Michael Mattsson
2014-07-10  8:44 ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-10 14:55   ` Michael Mattsson
2014-07-10 20:07     ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-10 21:27       ` Michael Mattsson
2014-07-11 11:48         ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-11 16:19           ` Michael Mattsson
2014-07-12  8:42             ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-16 16:58               ` Vasily Tarasov
2014-07-21  8:08                 ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-21 20:25                   ` Vasily Tarasov
2014-07-21 20:54                     ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-25  7:43                     ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-25  7:56                       ` Jens Axboe
2014-07-25 16:34                         ` Vasily Tarasov
2014-07-28  8:56                           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2014-07-28 16:05                             ` Vasily Tarasov
2014-07-28 19:49                               ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-23 15:57                                 ` Michael Mattsson
2014-10-23 16:01                                   ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-23 21:58                                     ` Michael Mattsson
2014-10-24  5:17                                       ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-24 15:33                                         ` Michael Mattsson
2014-10-24 15:50                                           ` Jens Axboe
2014-11-04 15:46                                             ` Vasily Tarasov

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