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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:17:59 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <kvs@pil.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unkillable and runaway processes
Message-ID:  <20070905141759.GJ12013@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <m1lkbmtw6z.fsf@binarysolutions.dk>
References:  <m1lkbmtw6z.fsf@binarysolutions.dk>

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> After many hours of rsyncing data from 50+ machines, suddenly one
> rsync-process will hang, spinning on the CPU.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> I can't do an 'ls' in the directory that rsync is running on - it'll
> just hang, too.
>=20
> The machine is running current from August 29th.
>=20
> I could use some pointers on what to do - is there some way I can debug
> this better, maybe give some better info?

Try disabling ZIL. This looks like a bug was already reported by Kris.
This was already reported to OpenSolaris.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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