Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

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* Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load
       [not found] <alpine.LRH.0.9999.0802231201380.21313@linuxbox.linuxbox.cz>
@ 2008-02-25  0:10 ` Andrew Morton
  2008-02-26  9:35   ` Nikola Ciprich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2008-02-25  0:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nikola Ciprich; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-scsi, Nick Cheng, Erich Chen

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:20:12 +0100 (CET) Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've found strange problem either in arcmsr driver, or maybe in 
> areca-1660 card...
> When system on SAS discs RAID connected to areca-1660 card 
> gets under heavy I/O load, it gets unusable after some time. I can 100% reproduce 
> this, although it needs quite speciffic conditions:
> It can be reproduced on 2x quad core machine, RAM has to be limited to 
> ~192MB to cause heavy paging.
> Only thing needed to cause the problem is to start loop doing kernel 
> compilation using make -j 8 - this loads the system heavily, because of 
> lack of memory. After few correct compile runs the system gets into 
> state when all programs including the basic ones (ls, cp, ..) start 
> crashing... dmesg (when it works) doesn't say anything strange...
> After reboot, the system is OK again.
> I have tested it on different motherboards, with different CPUs, RAMs(all 
> were properly tested with memtest), with two different areca cards and 
> different drives. I can't reproduce the problem on same hardware when 
> using different RAID card (ie adaptec). All testing systems were properly 
> cooled..
> I have tried all available areca firmwares, two different distributions 
> (oracle linux, and centos), and kernels ranging from distribution ones, to last GIT snapshot.
> Could somebody please give me some hints on how to hunt this problem?
> Areca support doesn't seem to be very interested in the problem :-(

(cc's added)

Please get the machine into this state of memory exhaustion then take
copies of the output of the following, and send them via reply-to-all to
this email:

- cat /proc/meminfo

- cat /proc/slabinfo

- dmesg -c > /dev/null ; echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; dmesg -c

Thanks.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread

* Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load
  2008-02-25  0:10 ` arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load Andrew Morton
@ 2008-02-26  9:35   ` Nikola Ciprich
  2008-02-26 10:30     ` nickcheng
  2008-02-26 17:43     ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Nikola Ciprich @ 2008-02-26  9:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-scsi, Nick Cheng, Erich Chen, kopi

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Hi

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

Hi Andrew,
thanks a lot for reply, I'm attaching requested information.
please let me know if You need more information/testing, whatever.
I'll be glad to help.
BR
nik

>> Areca support doesn't seem to be very interested in the problem :-(
>
> (cc's added)
>
> Please get the machine into this state of memory exhaustion then take
> copies of the output of the following, and send them via reply-to-all to
> this email:
>
> - cat /proc/meminfo
>
> - cat /proc/slabinfo
>
> - dmesg -c > /dev/null ; echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; dmesg -c
>
> Thanks.
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* RE: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load
  2008-02-26  9:35   ` Nikola Ciprich
@ 2008-02-26 10:30     ` nickcheng
  2008-02-26 17:43     ` Andrew Morton
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: nickcheng @ 2008-02-26 10:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Nikola Ciprich', 'Andrew Morton'
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-scsi, 'Erich Chen', kopi, kevin34,
	billion.wu

Hi Nikola,
As I said, we will test on our site.
Our support team will help you to settle the issue.
Sorry for your inconvenience,

-----Original Message-----
From: Nikola Ciprich [mailto:extmaillist@linuxbox.cz] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:36 PM
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Nick Cheng;
Erich Chen; kopi@linuxbox.cz
Subject: Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

Hi

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

Hi Andrew,
thanks a lot for reply, I'm attaching requested information.
please let me know if You need more information/testing, whatever.
I'll be glad to help.
BR
nik

>> Areca support doesn't seem to be very interested in the problem :-(
>
> (cc's added)
>
> Please get the machine into this state of memory exhaustion then take
> copies of the output of the following, and send them via reply-to-all to
> this email:
>
> - cat /proc/meminfo
>
> - cat /proc/slabinfo
>
> - dmesg -c > /dev/null ; echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; dmesg -c
>
> Thanks.
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* Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load
  2008-02-26  9:35   ` Nikola Ciprich
  2008-02-26 10:30     ` nickcheng
@ 2008-02-26 17:43     ` Andrew Morton
  2008-02-26 19:29       ` Nikola Ciprich
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2008-02-26 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nikola Ciprich; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-scsi, Nick Cheng, Erich Chen, kopi

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:31 +0100 (CET) Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> thanks a lot for reply, I'm attaching requested information.
> please let me know if You need more information/testing, whatever.
> I'll be glad to help.
> BR
> nik
> 
> >> Areca support doesn't seem to be very interested in the problem :-(
> >
> > (cc's added)
> >
> > Please get the machine into this state of memory exhaustion then take
> > copies of the output of the following, and send them via reply-to-all to
> > this email:
> >
> > - cat /proc/meminfo
> >
> > - cat /proc/slabinfo
> >
> > - dmesg -c > /dev/null ; echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; dmesg -c
> >
> > Thanks.

Alas, that all looks OK to me.

You never get any out-of-memory messages, and no oom-killing messages?

Possibly what is happening here is that in this low-memory condition, some
of the driver's internal memory-allocation attempts are failing, and the
driver isn't correctly handling this.  This is a rare situation which may
well not have been hit in anyone else's testing.

I expect that the Areca engineers will be able to reproduce this with a
suitably small "mem=" kernel boot option.  If not, they could perhaps
investigate the kernel's fault-injection framework, which permits
simulation of page allocation failures.

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* Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load
  2008-02-26 17:43     ` Andrew Morton
@ 2008-02-26 19:29       ` Nikola Ciprich
  2008-02-26 21:04         ` Zan Lynx
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Nikola Ciprich @ 2008-02-26 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-scsi, Nick Cheng, Erich Chen, kopi

Hi Andrew,
no, right now I have the machine in the weird state, swap is empty (3GB), 
and so is bigger part of RAM (~100MB free), and the gcc crashes even when 
trying to compile c program with empty main function. so it doesn't seem 
to be problem with memory exhaustion.
Hopefully the areca guys will be able to find out what is going on. But 
anyways, if You'll have any other idea what should I check/try, please let 
me know, as I have to admit that I'd really like to hunt it down myself 
(and yes, there is some vanity on my side here :))
thanks a lot once more
cheers
nik



  On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, 
Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:31 +0100 (CET) Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>> thanks a lot for reply, I'm attaching requested information.
>> please let me know if You need more information/testing, whatever.
>> I'll be glad to help.
>> BR
>> nik
>>
>>>> Areca support doesn't seem to be very interested in the problem :-(
>>>
>>> (cc's added)
>>>
>>> Please get the machine into this state of memory exhaustion then take
>>> copies of the output of the following, and send them via reply-to-all to
>>> this email:
>>>
>>> - cat /proc/meminfo
>>>
>>> - cat /proc/slabinfo
>>>
>>> - dmesg -c > /dev/null ; echo m > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; dmesg -c
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>
> Alas, that all looks OK to me.
>
> You never get any out-of-memory messages, and no oom-killing messages?
>
> Possibly what is happening here is that in this low-memory condition, some
> of the driver's internal memory-allocation attempts are failing, and the
> driver isn't correctly handling this.  This is a rare situation which may
> well not have been hit in anyone else's testing.
>
> I expect that the Areca engineers will be able to reproduce this with a
> suitably small "mem=" kernel boot option.  If not, they could perhaps
> investigate the kernel's fault-injection framework, which permits
> simulation of page allocation failures.
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* Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load
  2008-02-26 19:29       ` Nikola Ciprich
@ 2008-02-26 21:04         ` Zan Lynx
  2008-02-27  1:53           ` nickcheng
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Zan Lynx @ 2008-02-26 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nikola Ciprich
  Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel, linux-scsi, Nick Cheng, Erich Chen,
	kopi

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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:29 +0100, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> no, right now I have the machine in the weird state, swap is empty (3GB), 
> and so is bigger part of RAM (~100MB free), and the gcc crashes even when 
> trying to compile c program with empty main function. so it doesn't seem 
> to be problem with memory exhaustion.

Maybe memory fragmentation?  Perhaps the driver tries to allocate a
large block of memory and cannot find a continuous block of the right
size.

Maybe the driver developers used different kernel .config options than
you are using.  

Try increasing the value in /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes.

Try switching some things like SLAB or SLUB, try booting with
kernelcore=512M to enable the Movable memory zone, or try 64-bit vs
32-bit kernels. 
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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* RE: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load
  2008-02-26 21:04         ` Zan Lynx
@ 2008-02-27  1:53           ` nickcheng
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: nickcheng @ 2008-02-27  1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Nikola Ciprich'
  Cc: 'Andrew Morton', linux-kernel, linux-scsi,
	'Erich Chen', kopi, support, 'Zan Lynx'

Hi Nikola,
Please put support@areca.com.tw in the loop.
I am sure Areca support, Kevin, has taken over your case.
If you like, please let him know your configuration and operations to
synchronize both sides.
Thank you for your patience and sorry for your inconvenience,

-----Original Message-----
From: Zan Lynx [mailto:zlynx@acm.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:04 AM
To: Nikola Ciprich
Cc: Andrew Morton; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org;
Nick Cheng; Erich Chen; kopi@linuxbox.cz
Subject: Re: arcmsr & areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:29 +0100, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> no, right now I have the machine in the weird state, swap is empty (3GB), 
> and so is bigger part of RAM (~100MB free), and the gcc crashes even when 
> trying to compile c program with empty main function. so it doesn't seem 
> to be problem with memory exhaustion.

Maybe memory fragmentation?  Perhaps the driver tries to allocate a
large block of memory and cannot find a continuous block of the right
size.

Maybe the driver developers used different kernel .config options than
you are using.  

Try increasing the value in /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes.

Try switching some things like SLAB or SLUB, try booting with
kernelcore=512M to enable the Movable memory zone, or try 64-bit vs
32-bit kernels. 
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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