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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michael Weissenbacher <mw@dermichi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS hang during xfs_fsr run
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100312100019.GA13230@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9A0D2F.30506@dermichi.com>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:45:19AM +0100, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
> Hi Dave!
>> Hi Michael - have you got any idea what the files are that are
>> hitting this? This failure is implying that the inode is still dirty
>> after syncing all the data. Is something trying to modify it while
>> XFS is trying to map it?
> Yes, as far as i can tell it's always a file that some process is  
> currently modifying. It happens ofter with some file unter /var/log  
> which syslog is currently modifying. I tried setting the "no-defrag"  
> flag via xfs_io's chattr on all log files but that didn't seem to help.  
> It seems that cyrus imapd is triggering this problem far more likely  
> than any other program. Some examples of files where it usually hangs:
> /var/spool/imap/x/user/xxxx/cyrus.cache (lsof -> cyrus)
> /var/imap/db/log.xxxxxxx (lsof -> cyrus)
> /var/log/xxx.log (lsof -> syslog)

So what's interesting is that cyrus uses mmapp access to files, which
might be an indicator that we have problems with excluding fsr on mmaped
files.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-04 10:10 XFS hang during xfs_fsr run Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-04 11:20 ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-04 12:08   ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-04 13:15     ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-04 13:46       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-04 14:20         ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-04 14:30           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-04 17:14             ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-04 22:26           ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-05  9:04             ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-06 21:20             ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-08  0:06               ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-08 12:17                 ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-08 18:09                   ` Eric Sandeen
2010-03-09  9:14                     ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-09 11:38                       ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-09 12:09                         ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-10  8:46                     ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-11 23:39                       ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-12  9:45                         ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-12 10:00                           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-03-12 10:36                             ` Michael Weissenbacher
2010-03-12 11:56                             ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-12 14:27                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-13  0:25                                 ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-16  8:10 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-04-16 10:50   ` Michael Weissenbacher

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