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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Brian May <brian@vpac.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: open sleeps
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:21:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080619062118.GY3700@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4859EE54.6050801@vpac.org>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:27:48PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having (weird) issues with XFS, in that open(...) on certain files  
> takes 45 seconds to return. After the file has been opened, the next  
> file in the same directory takes 45 seconds. If the file was recently  
> opened it returns immediately.
>
> I thought this was a low level I/O issue, so copied the files in  
> question to a completely independent RAID array  (separate LVM, RAID,  
> controllers, disks), but the problem remains.
>
> More details at thread starting from  
> <http://lists.luv.asn.au/wws/arc/luv-main/2008-06/msg00143.html>.
>
> Any ideas?

# echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger

when it is hung to get a stack trace of the blocked open call.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19  5:27 open sleeps Brian May
2008-06-19  5:30 ` Brian May
2008-06-19  6:21 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2008-06-19  6:40   ` Brian May
2008-06-19  8:43     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-19  9:48       ` Sebastian Brings
2008-06-20  1:47       ` Brian May
2008-06-20  4:11         ` Brian May
2008-06-26  6:29           ` Brian May

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