On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:03:29PM +0200, Alessandro Bono wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm testing 2.6.23-rc9-git1 on my old home server
> Trying to reorganizer my xfs filesystem with xfs_fsr cause a sort of system
> hang
xfs_fsr is waiting for a direct I/O to complete.
Other processes are waiting for the superblock I/O to compete
(which is why writes are hanging), an dothers are waiting
for iclog space to be freed up. I think something is holding
off I/O completion, and this:
> possible SYN flooding on port 4664. Sending cookies.
> possible SYN flooding on port 4664. Sending cookies.
> possible SYN flooding on port 4664. Sending cookies.
> possible SYN flooding on port 4664. Sending cookies.
> possible SYN flooding on port 4664. Sending cookies.
indicates someone trying a DOS on your box. Perhaps it's
succeeding by denying interrupt service to you disks?
If you pull the network cable, does the system start to respond
properly again?
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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