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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Cheung, Norman" <Norman.Cheung@kla-tencor.com>
Cc: "linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Hung in D state during fclose
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:21:50 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212222150.GE26694@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3542214BE3A3EF419F236DFE0F878BC905190D@BL2PRD0310MB374.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:06:03PM +0000, Cheung, Norman wrote:
> [NLC] Only 2 threads in D state.  I  need to wait for the next
> hang to take another stack trace.  Is there any workaround I can
> reduce the frequencies of this hang.  What about reducing the
> xfssyncd_centisecs? Or other knobs?

You need to isolate the cause of the hang before changing anything.
Twiddling random knobs won't improve the situation. Understand the
problem first, then take appropriate action.

> [NLC]  2 RAID controllers in the system, it hung from disks on
> both of them.  One is SuperMicro 2208 and the other is LSI
> 9265-8I.  I think both use the same chipset.

Does the filesystem that hangs always belong to the same controller?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-12 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12  6:17 Hung in D state during fclose Norman Cheung
2013-02-12  6:55 ` Dave Chinner
2013-02-12  7:01   ` Cheung, Norman
2013-02-12 10:20     ` Dave Chinner
2013-02-12 16:39       ` Cheung, Norman
2013-02-12 20:22         ` Dave Chinner
2013-02-12 21:06           ` Cheung, Norman
2013-02-12 22:21             ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-02-13  0:12             ` Cheung, Norman
2013-02-13  5:15               ` Dave Chinner
2013-02-14  4:53                 ` Cheung, Norman
2013-02-26 19:41                   ` Cheung, Norman
2013-02-26 20:31                     ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-11 23:36 Cheung, Norman

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