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Message-Id: <201004011342.42467.nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:42:42 +0300
From: Denys Fedorysychenko <nuclearcat@...learcat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: endless sync on bdi_sched_wait()? 2.6.33.1
On Thursday 01 April 2010 01:12:54 Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 07:07:31PM +0300, Denys Fedorysychenko wrote:
> > I have a proxy server with "loaded" squid. On some moment i did sync, and
> > expecting it to finish in reasonable time. Waited more than 30 minutes,
> > still "sync". Can be reproduced easily.
> >
> > Here is some stats and info:
> >
> > Linux SUPERPROXY 2.6.33.1-build-0051 #16 SMP Wed Mar 31 17:23:28 EEST
> > 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > SUPERPROXY ~ # iostat -k -x -d 30
> > Linux 2.6.33.1-build-0051 (SUPERPROXY) 03/31/10 _i686_ (4 CPU)
> >
> > Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s
> > avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
> > sda 0.16 0.01 0.08 0.03 3.62 1.33
> > 88.94 0.15 1389.89 59.15 0.66
> > sdb 4.14 61.25 6.22 25.55 44.52 347.21
> > 24.66 2.24 70.60 2.36 7.49
> > sdc 4.37 421.28 9.95 98.31 318.27 2081.95
> > 44.34 20.93 193.21 2.31 24.96
> > sdd 2.34 339.90 3.97 117.47 95.48 1829.52
> > 31.70 1.73 14.23 8.09 98.20
>
> ^^^^ ^^^^^
>
> /dev/sdd is IO bound doing small random writeback IO. A service time
> of 8ms implies that it is doing lots of large seeks. If you've got
> GBs of data to sync and that's the writeback pattern, then sync will
> most definitely take a long, long time.
>
> it may be that ext4 is allocating blocks far apart rather than close
> together (as appears to be the case for /dev/sdc), so maybe this is
> is related to how the filesytems are aging or how full they are...
Thats correct, it is quite busy cache server.
Well, if i stop squid(cache) sync will finish enough fast.
If i don't - it took more than hour. Actually i left that PC after 1 hour, and
it didn't finish yet. I don't think it is normal.
Probably sync taking new data and trying to flush it too, and till he finish
that, more data comes.
Actually all what i need - to sync config directory. I cannot use fsync,
because it is multiple files opened before by other processes, and sync is
doing trick like this. I got dead process, and only fast way to recover system
- kill the cache process, so I/O pumping will stop for a while, and sync()
will have chance to finish.
Sure there is way just to "remount" config partition to ro, but i guess just
sync must flush only current buffer cache pages.
I will do more tests now and will give exact numbers, how much time it needs
with running squid and if i kill it shortly after running sync.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
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