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* sync-Regression in 2.6.28.2?
@ 2009-01-27  9:35 Ralf Hildebrandt
  2009-01-27 21:09 ` Federico Cuello
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Ralf Hildebrandt @ 2009-01-27  9:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Udo Wolter, cf

I recently installed 2.6.28.2 on our postfix/dovecot-based
mailboxserver. Previously, 2.6.28 and 2.6.28.1 have been running there
without a hitch.

Now with 2.6.28.2 I had two major lockups: All writes to the users'
Maildirs (on ext4) would stall, the load would rise, "sync" would never
return.

I had to "reboot -f -n" to get the machine back. All hanging processes
were unkillable, even with kill -9.

There was NOTHING in dmesg, nothing in the log either. No indication
of filesystem errors or anything.

Lookin at the
http://www.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.2
I see changes to 

fs: sys_sync fix
fs: sync_sb_inodes fix
fs: remove WB_SYNC_HOLD

Since the mailserver uses sync() extensively (both dovecot and
postfix), maybe that's the culprit?

Note: I'm really just guessing here!
Back to 2.6.28.1 for now.

-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt                                Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de
Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin            Tel.  +49 (0)30-450 570-155
Geschäftsbereich IT | Abt. Netzwerk             Fax.  +49 (0)30-450 570-962
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2009-01-27  9:35 sync-Regression in 2.6.28.2? Ralf Hildebrandt
2009-01-27 21:09 ` Federico Cuello
2009-02-03  1:09   ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-03 19:51     ` Federico Cuello
2009-02-04  6:17       ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-04 17:31         ` Federico Cuello
2009-02-05  3:25           ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-05 11:54             ` Federico Cuello
2009-02-09 13:45               ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-09 13:49                 ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2009-02-15 13:42                   ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2009-02-17  4:17                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-17 15:15                       ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2009-02-05 10:19           ` Ralf Hildebrandt

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