I'm a little confused. What state is the vnlru kernel thread in? It
sounds like vnlru must be stuck.
Note that you can gdb the live kernel and get a stack backtrace of any
stuck process.
gdb -k /kernel.debug /dev/mem (or whatever)
proc N (e.g. vnlru's pid)
back
All the processes stuck in 'inode' are likely associated with the
problem, but if that is what is causing vnlru to be stuck I would expect
vnlru itself to be stuck in 'inode'.
unionfs is probably responsible. I would not be surprised at all if
unionfs is causing a deadlock somewhere which is creating a chain of
processes stuck in 'inode' which is in turn causing vnlru to get stuck.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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:
:On Mon, 26 May 2003, Mike Harding wrote:
:
:> Er - are any changes made to RELENG_4_8 that aren't made to RELENG_4? I
:> thought it was the other way around - that 4_8 only got _some_ of the
:> changes to RELENG_4...
:
:Ack, my fault ... sorry, wasn't thinking :( RELENG_4 is correct ... I
:should have confirmed my settings before blathering on ...
:
:One of the scripts I used extensively while debugging this ... a quite
:simple one .. was:
:
:#!/bin/tcsh
:while ( 1 )
: echo `sysctl debug.numvnodes` - `sysctl debug.freevnodes` - `sysctl
debug.vnlru_nowhere` - `ps auxl | grep vnlru | grep -v grep | awk '{print $20}'`
: sleep 10
:end
:
:which outputs this:
:
:debug.numvnodes: 463421 - debug.freevnodes: 220349 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 3 - vlruwt
:
:I have my maxvnodes set to 512k right now ... now, when the server "hung",
:the output would look something like (this would be with 'default' vnodes):
:
:debug.numvnodes: 199252 - debug.freevnodes: 23 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 12 - vlrup
:
:with the critical bit being the vlruwt -> vlrup change ...
:
:with unionfs, you are using two vnodes per file, instead of one in
:non-union mode, which is why I went to 512k vs the default of ~256k vnodes
:... it doesn't *fix* the problem, it only reduces its occurance ...
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