From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m2ADVFZ0030880 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:31:17 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 307A95C3BC8 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id AkdC6s8Fj2hw8imd for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47D5383E.50201@sandeen.net> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:31:42 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: an occational trouble with xfs file system which xfs_repair 2.7.14 has been able to fix References: <47D52BE5.6010706@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <47D52BE5.6010706@iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: erkki.lintunen@iki.fi Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Erkki Lintunen wrote: ... > commands in a script. When the trouble begins cp -al command starts to > take several hours and hundreds of megs memory. rm -fr of a subtree also > takes considerably longer than rm a subtree in another bigger tree in > the same filesystem, but the rm commands have always finnished, which > the cp -al commands haven't. Most of the time the cp -al process has D > status. ... > What else information I could provide in addition to those requested in FAQ? When you get a process in the D state, do echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger to get backtraces of all processes; or echo w to get all blocked processes. -Eric