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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Cheng Shao <zchshao@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: writes got stuck
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:06:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303214712-sup-9341@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinJt3n69=NpPKAvFd3LPeDGnn0bkA@mail.gmail.com>

Excerpts from Cheng Shao's message of 2011-04-18 17:49:29 -0400:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm periodically having issues with btrfs running in a Ubuntu VM using
> VirtualBox. After the VM has been running for a while (a couple days),
> any write operation seems getting stuck. The read seems totally fine.
> I tried a simple dd of a 4M file and it got stuck after writing 131K
> worth of data.
> 
> I don't know if this is btrfs related, or it is due to some bug in
> VritualBox. Could you guys provide information on how to debug this
> (collecting logs, getting dumps etc.)? Thanks a lot!

Which kernel are you running?

Definitely look for kernel messages (run dmesg etc).  If there are no
crashes or related messages you can run sysrq-t and send the output and
we can look for the deadlock.

-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-19 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18 21:49 writes got stuck Cheng Shao
2011-04-19 12:06 ` Chris Mason [this message]
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2011-04-25  5:28 Chris Murphy

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