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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:48:16 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <kvs@pil.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unkillable and runaway processes
Message-ID:  <20070904144815.GB3547@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <m1lkbmtw6z.fsf@binarysolutions.dk>
References:  <m1lkbmtw6z.fsf@binarysolutions.dk>

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In the last episode (Sep 04), Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt said:
> Our ZFS testbed is experiencing some weird problems with rsync. We
> run a nightly backup of about 1.6 TB data (that's how much is stored,
> not how much is transferred), but after the initial sync I haven't
> been able to get the machine through one full cycle.
> 
> After many hours of rsyncing data from 50+ machines, suddenly one
> rsync-process will hang, spinning on the CPU.
> 
> It switches state between CPU0, CPU1, RUN and 'zfs:(&', but doesn't
> really do anything. It can't be killed, and you can't reboot the
> machine - it'll get past syncing disks, but won't shutdown or reboot.

The zfs wchan strings are way too long for ps or top to print, but if
the rsync is running from a tty somewhere, hit ^T and you'll get the
full wait string.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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