From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 23:19:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5FE37B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA4F43FAF for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:19:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvh@ix.netcom.com) Received: from lsanca1-ar6-4-62-202-071.lsanca1.elnk.dsl.genuity.net ([4.62.202.71] helo=netcom1.netcom.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19KBKI-00021c-00; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:19:18 -0700 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netcom1.netcom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E0C5312; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:19:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Harding To: The Hermit Hacker In-Reply-To: <20030524190051.R598@hub.org> References: <20030521171941.364325314@netcom1.netcom.com> <20030524190051.R598@hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053929957.7831.2.camel@netcom1.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 25 May 2003 23:19:17 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system slowdown - vnode related X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 06:19:22 -0000 I'm running a very recent RELENG-4 - but I had a suspicion that this was unionfs related, so I unmounted the /usr/ports union mounts under a jail in case this was causing the problem, and haven't seen the problem since. It's possible I accidently reverted to 4.8 when I built a release, but I don't see how... On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 15:04, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Hi Mike ... > > What version of FreeBSD are you running? There were several fixes put > in just after 4.8 was released, one of which dealt with freeing up vnodes, > since I was hitting similar problems on our server where we're using > unionfs ... > > On Wed, 21 May 2003, Mike Harding wrote: > > > > > I woke up to a frozen box this morning - it froze up a few more times > > before I got a handle on it. > > > > Basically, the box runs idle but refuses to do disk IO, or does it > > -very- slowly. > > > > Top shows processes stuck in 'ffsvget', 'inode', and 'vlruwk' state. > > > > I can get the box responsive again by setting sysctl > > kern.maxvnods=100000. It starts up with kern.maxnodes=36079. I don't > > know yet if this is a 'fix' - I wanted to send this mail out before > > the box froze again. > > > > I can reliably get the box in to this state by doing 'find /'. I do > > have a lot of files on the disk, and a things like squid and postgres > > that do a lot of file i/o, but I don't recall this happening before > > this week. I don't find anything in 'tuning' about bumping up vnodes, > > but I do see sporadic reports on a google group search - searching for > > 'ffsvgt'. > > > > Anybody run into this before? > > > > - Mike H. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org