From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
"Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
Subject: Re: VMs are pausing with ENOSPC
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:22:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111122249.GA22408@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131111094329.GF28264@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>
On Mon 11-11-13 10:43:29, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 07:00:32AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On RHEL 6.4 I have a number of kvms using qemu raw disks. They are all
> > on a filesystem which has reached 500G (of 1TB) of usage. None of the
> > qemu images are full as reported by qemu-img info. Yet my VMs are all
> > pausing with:
> >
> > block I/O error in device 'drive-virtio-disk0': No space left on device (28)
> >
> > in their logs
> > i.e.: # qemu-img info /var/lib/libvirt/images/mgmt1-disk0
> > image: /var/lib/libvirt/images/mgmt1-disk0
> > file format: raw
> > virtual size: 120G (128849018880 bytes)
> > disk size: 52G
> >
> > and:
> >
> > # df -h /var/lib/libvirt/images/
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/mapper/vg_00-virt--images 1.0T 500G 473G 52% /var/lib/libvirt/images
>
> Added linux-ext4 mailing list and more info from an IRC debugging
> session with Brian:
>
> The image file is on an ext4 file system. The QEMU userspace process is
> performing a pwritev() system call that fails with ENOSPC.
>
> The particular pwritev() that failed had ~600 iovecs covering about 2.4
> MB of data. The file is opened O_DIRECT.
>
> The VMs are all hitting ENOSPC when they write to the file system but
> df(1) shows there should still be 48% (~473 GB) available.
>
> Any ideas why writes produce ENOSPC on an ext4 file system with
> sufficient space free?
OK, likely a bug in RHEL 6.4 kernel. But since that is 2.6.32 with lots
of patches, I suggest you contact RHEL support to debug that further.
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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2013-11-11 9:43 ` VMs are pausing with ENOSPC Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-11-11 12:17 ` Lukáš Czerner
2013-11-11 12:22 ` Jan Kara [this message]
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