From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 14:17:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940F71065677 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:17:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177108FC29 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:17:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.lon.namesco.net (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m7CEH54L002703 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:17:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <48A19B5D.4010707@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:17:01 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David N References: <4d7dd86f0808120610s11fe4206xa2ad38b252a05db8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d7dd86f0808120610s11fe4206xa2ad38b252a05db8@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsync: giving up on dirty - gjournal on 7.0-R X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:17:07 -0000 My understanding is that its nothing to worry about. http://freebsd.monkey.org/freebsd-stable/200609/msg00020.html for example, where pjd@freebsd.org who wrote gjounal says "It happens sometimes under load, haven't investigated yet what exactly is happening, but you can ignore it for now, it's harmless, it just means journal switch will be done a bit later." Vince David N wrote: > Hi, > > On my FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE amd64 i get the following in my logs when I > was upgrading my ports via portmaster. > > fsync: giving up on dirty > 0xffffff00014745d0: tag devfs, type VCHR > usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 173 mountedhere 0xffffff00013b2800 > flags () > v_object 0xffffff000143f1a0 ref 0 pages 2057 > lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xffffff0001302340 (pid 39) > dev mirror/gm0s3.journal > GEOM_JOURNAL: Cannot suspend file system /usr (error=35). > > gm0s3.journal has a 2GB journal. Journal and data is on the same disk (mirror) > > Is this something to worry about? > > Smart for the disks aren't reporting any errors. this is with short > tests and extended tests. > > > Regards > David N > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >