From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p9FM9SO6136726 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:09:28 -0500 Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id E36AF1CDD2A for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.143]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id JjAxZMDgGxxfeZEO for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:09:22 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: tasks hangs in D state while writing to xfs Message-ID: <20111015220922.GR3159@dastard> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Marcin M Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +0200, Marcin M wrote: > Hello! > I've noticed strange problem with xfs. I've created filesystem with > blocksize=1024 and log as small as it possible. Next i'm copying files > using rsync, after sometime rsync hangs in D state. So i can't kill it, > i've got to reboot hosts. In dmesg i'm getting such messages: Known problem - it's a log space hang. You can often get stuff moving again via "echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches". That said, Christoph's fixes for the 3.0.x kernel series are here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-10/msg00305.html Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs