Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-23 Thread kyle
I can try and do this later this week possibly. Justin. alt-sysrq-T or "echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger" can be really helpful to diagnose this sort of problem (providing the system isn't so badly stuck that the kernel logs don't get stored). It is probably hitting a memory-allocation deadlock,

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Liang Yang
2007 5:18 AM Subject: Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: Hi, Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something like 16384. After I did that, the

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Cousins
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug lie

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
> Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change > it > at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' > time > and it works. Not sure where the bug lies, but y

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug lie

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I > > > can > > > get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something > > > like 16384. After I did tha

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: Hi, Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze. Any proccess read / write to it stucked at D state. I

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can > get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something > like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze. Any proccess read / write to > it stucked at D st