From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 16:33:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40EF16A405 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 16:33:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BAE13C483 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 16:33:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985EC1A3C19; Wed, 16 May 2007 09:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A27EF52C45; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:33:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:33:05 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andrew Edwards Message-ID: <20070516163305.GA73495@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <5230D3C40B842D4F9FB3CD368021BEF72F08F1@exchange-2.sandvine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5230D3C40B842D4F9FB3CD368021BEF72F08F1@exchange-2.sandvine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ufs dead-locks on freebsd 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:33:07 -0000 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:08:24PM -0400, Andrew Edwards wrote: > I have a system running a dual intel zeon 2.8Ghz with 4G of ram and > using an intel raid controller model SRCU42X which uses the amr driver. > I have had this server running 5.4 upgraded to 6.2 and was running fine > for several months and then after a normal reboot I've started having > all sorts of problems with what appears to be dead-locks in the > filesystem. This server is my backup server and I rsync files from > various servers onto this one fairly non-stop. If I stop the rsync's > the system appears to be stable although I did have a kernel core just > last night. > > When I have been able to observe the problem I ususally see one > filesystem become inaccessible, perhaps var but I'm not sure, and then > in a short period of time the whole system is inaccessible. Usually if > I startup just one of the rsync's within a couple of hours the system > will be un-usable. > > I did find this thread which seems to describe similar issues but this > is a different driver. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-August/127835. > html Probably not relevant then. Deadlocks come in many varieties, all different. > Currently I'm running with debug.mpsafevfs=0, debug.mpsafenet=1and > debug.mpsafevm=0 but this doesn't seem to help. > > On perahps a related issue I have two other nearly identical systems > which were going to be upgrading to 6.2 as on 5.4 I am experiencing > deadlocks and when I hit ctrl-t I see the system is either stuck in ufs > or zoneinfo and I have not found very much information about zoneinfo. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can look for or other tuning > options or had similar experiences? See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers handbook for the information you need to provide before we can begin to debug your problem. Kris