From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com ([192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m5J5TFwS009020 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:29:16 -0700 Received: from zimbra.vpac.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 512BE17E5AD3 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zimbra.vpac.org (zimbra.vpac.org [202.158.218.6]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id TeQoqjOOXRShOCYe for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4859EEDA.3060906@vpac.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:30:02 +1000 From: Brian May MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: open sleeps References: <4859EE54.6050801@vpac.org> In-Reply-To: <4859EE54.6050801@vpac.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Brian May Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Sorry, repost with the weird Followup-To header (was hoping Thunderbird would use Mail-Followup-To but obviously not). 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 > . > > Any ideas? > > Please CC me responses. > > Thanks. > > Brian May