From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1847F50 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 10:42:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC602AC001 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 08:42:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id pi2Cp26c1F2UoPi5 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:42:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <510E9372.60808@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:42:26 -0600 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfs deadlock on buffer semaphore while reading directory References: <20130202192007.GS30577@one.firstfloor.org> <510D6EDE.1080409@sgi.com> <510E054B.2070500@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <510E054B.2070500@tlinx.org> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com 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 Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Linda Walsh Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 2/3/2013 12:35 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Odd thing about my current probs -- my current system has been > up 12 days...but before that it had been up 43 days... Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux 10:13:13 up 339 days, 22:42, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.05 This is a hand rolled 'minimalist' kernel with the old SLAB allocator, no modules, Debian 6 atop. Just over 11 months of flawless operation, though load is probably much lighter than on your system. > I can't get the buffers to 'free' no matter what > echo 3> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches does nothing. That's interesting. > so I may be rebooting soon... Did you roll this 3.7.1 yourself? I'm wondering if you did something wonky in your config that's causing or contributing to your problems. -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs