I believe the problem could be due to fragmentation.
1) Can you run the following script and email me the output
https://oss.oracle.com/~seeda/misc/stat_sysdir.sh
run it as stat_sysdir.sh -d <dev>

2) can you also do the following and provide me the fs state
mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug
cat /sys/kernel/debug/ocfs2/*/fs_state

On 10/25/2012 6:32 PM, Jeff Paterson wrote:
Hello,

I would need help with our OCFS2 (1.8.0) filesystem. We are having problems with it since a couple days. When we write onto it, it hangs.

The "hanging pattern" is easily reproductible. If I write a 1GB file on the filesystem, it does the following:
        - write ~200 MB of data on the disk in 1 second
        - freeze for about 10 seconds
        - write ~200 MB of data on the disk in 1 second
        - freeze for about 10 seconds
        - write ~200 MB of data on the disk in 1 second
        - freeze for about 10 seconds
        (and so on)

When the freezes occur:
- other writes operations (from other processes) on the same node also freeze - writes operations on other nodes are not affected by the freezes on another node Read operations (on any cluster node, even the one with frozen writes) don't seem to be affected by the freezes. One sure thing, read operations alone don't cause the filesystem freeze.

For info, before the problem began to appear we could sustain 640 MB/s writes without any freeze.

I tried to mount the filesystem on a single node to avoid issues that could happen with inter-node communications and the problem was still there.


*_Filesystem details_*

  * The filesystem has 18 TB and it is currently 72% full.
  * Mount options are the following:
    
rw,nodev,_netdev,noatime,errors=panic,data=writeback,noacl,nouser_xattr,commit=60,heartbeat=local
  * All Features: backup-super strict-journal-super sparse
    extended-slotmap inline-data metaecc indexed-dirs refcount
    discontig-bg unwritten



There is nothing special in the systems logs beside application errors caused by the freezes.


Would a fsck.ocfs2 help?   How long would it take for 18 TB?

Is there a flag I can enable in debugfs.ocfs2 to get a better idea of what is happening and why it is freezing like that?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Jeff


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