Re: Apparent Deadlock with nfsd/jfs on 2.6.21.1 under bonnie.

[Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>]

Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:16 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
> 
>> Dave,
>>
>> Apparently there appears to be another different similar lockup,
>> The MTBF has risen from 1-2 hours without that patch to >100 hours,
>> so I am fairly sure the patch did correct the original lockup, or
>> at the very least make it a lot less likely.
>>
>> I hit the machine across NFS for 5 days before it deadlocked, before
>> the patch I could only get an hour or two (2-4 different tries).
>>
>> Given that pdflush is "D" it does not appear to be an NFS issue.
>>
>> Included is the sysrq-t.
>>
>> This is with 2.6.21.1 + the JFSIO patch.
> 
> Is the system still in this state?  Can you cat /proc/fs/jfs/TxAnchor
> (if CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG is defined) and /proc/fs/jfs/txstats (if
> CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS is defined)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaggy

Yes, the machine is still in that state.

Apparently I don't have either of those configured.

Anything else that we can collect before I rebuild the kernel with
those options setup?

                              Roger