Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:25:39 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.33-rc2 |
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Hi Grant,
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:42:17PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:51:37 +0200, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: (...) > >after a full day of stress-test of multiple parallel tar xUf, and ffsb at > >full CPU load, I could not reproduce the problem on the exact same kernel > >I first saw it on. So I think I had bad luck and the problem is not related > >to the vfs_unlink() patch, so unless anyone else reports a problem or tells > >us why it is right or wrong, it would seem reasonable to keep it as it is > >in -rc2. > > Hi Willy, > > Got this with unpatched -rc2, tosh is NFS server, niner is client: > > grant@niner:/home/nfstest$ ls -l > total 228474 > drwxr-xr-x 19 grant wheel 680 2006-03-20 16:53 linux-2.6.16/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 grant wheel 233953280 2006-07-05 18:27 linux-2.6.16.tar > drwxr-xr-x 19 grant wheel 680 2006-03-20 16:53 linux-2.6.16b/ > grant@niner:/home/nfstest$ x=0; while [ ! $(diff -rq linux-2.6.16 linux-2.6.16b) ]; do ((x++)); echo "trial $x"; rm -rf linux-2.6.16b; mv linux-2.6.16 linux-2.6.16b; tar xf linux-2.6.16.tar; done > trial 1 > ... > trial 29 > rm: cannot remove directory `linux-2.6.16b/drivers/cdrom': Directory not empty > -bash: [: too many arguments > grant@niner:/home/nfstest$ ls -l > total 228474 > drwxr-xr-x 19 grant wheel 680 2006-03-20 16:53 linux-2.6.16/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 grant wheel 233953280 2006-07-05 18:27 linux-2.6.16.tar > drwxr-xr-x 4 grant wheel 104 2006-07-06 11:01 linux-2.6.16b/ > grant@niner:/home/nfstest$ rm -rf linux-2.6.16b/ > > The 'rm -rf linux-2.6.16b' completed okay, a mystery?
you might have had a '.nfs0000*' file inthe directory which prevented rmmod from working, but it was finally removed by the rm -rf.
> This is with two slow (500MHz) boxen with -rc2. > Only idea I get from logs is during the test: > > Jul 5 19:01:19 niner kernel: nfs: server tosh not responding, still trying > Jul 5 19:01:19 niner kernel: nfs: server tosh OK > > ... about one pair each 2 to 5 mins > > Jul 6 11:16:08 niner kernel: nfs: server tosh not responding, still trying > Jul 6 11:16:08 niner kernel: nfs: server tosh OK > Jul 6 11:26:57 niner -- MARK -- > Jul 6 11:46:57 niner -- MARK --
I get this if the server spends too much time writing data back to the disks. Doing this on the server fixed the problem for me :
# echo 50 25000 0 0 100 100 60 45 0 >/proc/sys/vm/bdflush
> Other pair of boxen with patched -rc2 completed 146 trials overnight along > with compiling 2.4 kernel over NFS as well since morning, 64 completed. > No 'server not responding messages' logged.
Was it on the same server and while other clients saw the server disappear ?
> I'll change the two running boxen to straight -rc2 and see if catch > anything.
OK, similarly, it might be interesting to apply your patch to niner to see if the rmmod error happens again.
> Grant.
Thanks for your tests, Willy
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