Re[2]: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-04 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Ivan. You wrote 3 февраля 2008 г., 23:35:44: If so, this is the same class of errors as ZFS (some would call it tuning errors) Why this is ever possible on stable (I know, that stable doesn't meand really stable these days, but at least it is not -CURRENT, whcih can be experimental)

Re: Re[2]: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-04 Thread Chris
Ok, subsystem can not work efficiently. Degrade service. Swith to one 512 byte sector per second speed mode. Disable all caches, doesn't try to work with all features. Complain 10 times/second on console (and dmesg buffer). Ok. But PANIC?! NO-NO-NO!!! Yes given the fact I had a panic and

gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Chris
I had originally enabled gjournal and seemed to have no problems but I was seeing errors in messages regarding dma write failures and after some research concluded I had setup gjournal incorrectly. I setup the gjournal again properly with soft updates disabled and doing a fresh newfs, mount

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris wrote: Came back to see box had rebooted itself from a journal related panic. panic: Journal overflow (joffset=49905408 active=499691355136 inactive=4990$ cpuid = 0 AFAIK this means that the journal is too small for your machine - try doubling it until there are no more panics.

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Gary Palmer
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:35:44PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Chris wrote: Came back to see box had rebooted itself from a journal related panic. panic: Journal overflow (joffset=49905408 active=499691355136 inactive=4990$ cpuid = 0 AFAIK this means that the journal is too small for

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Adam McDougall
Ivan Voras wrote: Chris wrote: Came back to see box had rebooted itself from a journal related panic. panic: Journal overflow (joffset=49905408 active=499691355136 inactive=4990$ cpuid = 0 AFAIK this means that the journal is too small for your machine - try doubling it until there

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Chris
I did some experimentation with gjournal a few weeks ago to determine how I might partition a new server, as well as how large to make my journals and where. I did find that for the computers I have tested so far, a 1 gig (default size) journal seems to be sufficient, but half of that or

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Chris
AFAIK this means that the journal is too small for your machine - try doubling it until there are no more panics. If so, this is the same class of errors as ZFS (some would call it tuning errors), only this time the space reserved for the on-disk journal is too small, and the fast drives

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Gary Palmer wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:35:44PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: If so, this is the same class of errors as ZFS (some would call it tuning errors), only this time the space reserved for the on-disk journal is too small, and the fast drives fill it up before data can be

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Michael Butler
Chris wrote: If the only advantage of journaling is to avoid slow fsck's then I may decide I can live without it, the real attraction to me was been able to use the much glamorised async which is what made me so shocked when write speeds were low. If I understood this thread correctly, the

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Chris
If I understood this thread correctly, the impression of poor performance is based on a configuration where both the journal and the data are on the same physical drive. Intuitively, this will likely penalize any transaction on the volume, read or write, since you're asking the drive to not

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Michael Butler wrote: I would think that journaling on one drive and storing the resultant data-set on another would improve performance enormously (reduced seek-lengths) and more so if they were 1) high-rpm drives (less rotational latency) and 2) on different buses (no bus/controller

Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

2008-02-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Chris wrote: AFAIK this means that the journal is too small for your machine - try doubling it until there are no more panics. If so, this is the same class of errors as ZFS (some would call it tuning errors), only this time the space reserved for the on-disk journal is too small, and the fast