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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: jose.spam@netvisao.pt
Cc: jose.calhariz@netvisao.pt, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	ns-list@dsi.ist.utl.pt
Subject: Re: md raid6 deadlock on write
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:38:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120704113811.180be107@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120702221508.GA24801@calhariz.com>

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On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 23:15:08 +0100 Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
<jose.calhariz@netvisao.pt> wrote:

> 
> We have a group of servers with a LVM over a RAID6 of 16 drives.
> During normal work loads, sometimes, the md raid enter on deadlock for
> writes and only a power off/power on allows to recover the machine.

This might be fixed by the following commit which was recently included in
3.5-rc. If could test with that I'd appreciate it.

> 
>   - there is information from "SysRq : Show State", not attached
>     because is too big,

How big is too big?  It is very hard to see if there is anything useful in
there if I cannot see it....

NeilBrown


> 
>   - in attach the output of "iostat -dx 1",
> 
>   - the "avgqu-sz" of the logical volume used for fio tests was
>     76280.00,
> 
>   - in attach the output of "ps ax".
> 
> 
>         Jose Calhariz
> 
> 
> 
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-04  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20120629194600.GA23859@calhariz.com>
2012-07-02 22:15 ` md raid6 deadlock on write Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
2012-07-04  1:38   ` NeilBrown [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20120704102411.GG15287@calhariz.com>
2012-07-06 13:55       ` Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
2012-07-09  3:46         ` NeilBrown
2012-07-09 11:22           ` Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz
2012-07-04  2:43   ` Igor M Podlesny

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