From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 14:34:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C32E16A412 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:34:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rexroof@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE66843D78 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:34:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rexroof@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so398526nzn for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:34:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j35OJnqz21nwlesTlqnrrUZKAMVt9J1MzuVyQq8MwV/amBcJvSjkI//+DAel1Fyz1oScpSp+klZFy6r3XTykjZbNWvu77b46yso/Dg47xcaMLhqA+3R22j62+qk4l/vKzP8uNDI5O1n6YgVmcm8eIZDYHv1Fq9+QQFb1gjJtdwc= Received: by 10.65.180.7 with SMTP id h7mr3718487qbp; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.40.1 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6afb69aa0609290734r5c7e284eycaeacff008c179e3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:34:01 -0400 From: "Rex Roof" To: "R. B. Riddick" In-Reply-To: <20060927185024.84636.qmail@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6afb69aa0609271142v7bb6fe4bkbc1dd588bfaa5607@mail.gmail.com> <20060927185024.84636.qmail@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirror/stripe freezing under FreeBSD 5.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:34:02 -0000 is blocking reads or something. I'm not sure. my mirrors are completely built: $ gstripe status Name Status Components stripe/bigstripe UP mirror/mirone mirror/mirtwo mirror/mirthr $ gmirror status Name Status Components mirror/mirone COMPLETE ad4 ad8 mirror/mirtwo COMPLETE ad6 ad12 mirror/mirthr COMPLETE ad14 ad16 and here are my device listings: $ gstripe list Geom name: bigstripe State: UP Status: Total=3, Online=3 Type: AUTOMATIC Stripesize: 4096 ID: 2369540782 Providers: 1. Name: stripe/bigstripe Mediasize: 750178037760 (699G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e0 Consumers: 1. Name: mirror/mirone Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Number: 0 2. Name: mirror/mirtwo Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Number: 1 3. Name: mirror/mirthr Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Number: 2 $ gmirror list Geom name: mirone State: COMPLETE Components: 2 Balance: split Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 816415530 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/mirone Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Consumers: 1. Name: ad4 Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 1 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 4195234118 2. Name: ad8 Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3319422241 Geom name: mirtwo State: COMPLETE Components: 2 Balance: split Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 1333653928 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/mirtwo Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Consumers: 1. Name: ad6 Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2528877084 2. Name: ad12 Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2238921542 Geom name: mirthr State: COMPLETE Components: 2 Balance: split Slice: 4096 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2890376801 Providers: 1. Name: mirror/mirthr Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 Consumers: 1. Name: ad14 Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 3548914119 2. Name: ad16 Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 1 Flags: DIRTY GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 4093914448 as you can see, they say DIRTY. a few seconds later they changed to CLEAN. I'm noticing now that they're changing back and forth rather frequently. perhaps once a minute; much more often than the freezing is happening. On 9/27/06, R. B. Riddick wrote: > --- Rex Roof wrote: > > Anyone have any ideas? or any suggestions for further debugging? > > > I am using gmirror and gstripe since months and i am quite happy with it... > But my structure is quite flat... > > I have no real theory about the reason of the bad behaviour of ur system... > > But: Maybe it could help, when u tell us what > gmirror status > and > gstripe status > says... > > Maybe > gmirror list > and > gstripe list > might be good, too... > > R there any traffic bursts on ur box? > > Maybe u should let ur system some time until the mirrors r rebuilded > completely... > > For comparison: My "gmirror status" says this: > > gmirror status > Name Status Components > mirror/sys COMPLETE ad0s1a > ad1s1a > mirror/home COMPLETE ad0s1d > ad1s1d > > -Arne > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >