From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p6RJsrep218667 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:54:53 -0500 Received: from mx2.netapp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 91622151490B for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.netapp.com (mx2.netapp.com [216.240.18.37]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 9AFPxGeBdMXgSaor for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E306D09.5030704@netapp.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:54:49 -0400 From: Bryan Schumaker MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.xx: NFS: directory motion/cam2 contains a readdir loop References: <20110727160752.GC974@fieldses.org> <20110727181111.GA23009@infradead.org> <20110727193937.GA5354@infradead.org> <20110727194722.GA9345@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20110727194722.GA9345@infradead.org> 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: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/27/2011 03:47 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:44:20PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:35:01PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>>> Currently I do not see any dupes, however I have a script that moves >>>> images out of the directory once an hour: >>>> 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/move_to_old2.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 >>> >>> Do you keep adding files to the directory while you move files out? >> Yes, otherwise there are too many files in the directory and viewers, e.g., >> each geeqie (picture viewer) will use > 4-6GB of memory, so I try to keep >> it around 5,000 pictures or less. >> >>> What's the rate of additions/removals to the directory? >> Additions it depends, around 5,000 over a 12hr period, 416/hr, current: >> >> atom:/d1/motion# find cam1|wc >> 5215 5215 166853 >> atom:/d1/motion# find cam2|wc >> 5069 5069 162181 >> atom:/d1/motion# find cam3|wc >> 5594 5594 178981 >> atom:/d1/motion# > > This sounds a lot like xfs simply filling up the directory index slots > of files that you just moved out with new files, and nfs falsely > claiming that this is a problem. > > Any chance to figure out if the file you hit the printk with was one > that got either recently added or moved when you hit it? (I can't > follow the nfs code enough to check if it prints the first or second hit > of the same cookie) It should be printing on the second hit of a cookie. - Bryan > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs