On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:23:39AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> No allocation algorithm is perfect in all circumstances. The
> alogrithms in XFS tend to degrade when large contiguous freespace
> regions are not available, resulting in more fragmentation of data
> extents and subsequent freespace fragmentation when those files are
> removed or defragmented. The algorithms will recover if you free up
> enough space that large contiguous freespace extents re-form, but
> that can require removing a large amount of data....
Thanks for the background explanation!
> > > > % df -i /d1
> > > > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
> > > > /dev/mapper/vg0-d1 167509008 11806336 155702672 8% /d1
> > > > % sudo xfs_growfs -n /d1
> > > > meta-data=/dev/mapper/vg0-d1 isize=256 agcount=18,
> > > > agsize=13107200 blks
> > > > = sectsz=512 attr=2
> > > > data = bsize=4096 blocks=235929600,
> > > > imaxpct=25
> > > > = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
> > > > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0
> > > > log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=25600, version=2
> > > > = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
> > > > realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0
> > > > % grep d1 /proc/mounts
> > > > /dev/mapper/vg0-d1 /d1 xfs rw,relatime,attr2,noquota 0 0
> > > >
> > > > Obviously I'm missing something, but what?
> > >
> > > Most likely is that you have no contiguous free space large enough
> > > to create a new inode chunk. using xfs_db to dump the freespace
> > > size histogram will tell you if this is the case or not.
> >
> > % sudo xfs_db -c freesp /dev/vg0/d1
> > from to extents blocks pct
> > 1 1 168504 168504 1.71
> > 2 3 446 1135 0.01
> > 4 7 5550 37145 0.38
> > 8 15 49159 524342 5.33
> > 16 31 1383 29223 0.30
> > 2097152 4194303 1 2931455 29.78
> > 4194304 8388607 1 6150953 62.49
> >
> > I don't really grok that output.
>
> It's the historgram of free space extent sizes. You have 168504
> single free block regions (4k in size) in the filesystem, 446
> between 8k and 12k (2-3 blocks), etc.
Ah, OK! Now it makes sense.
> Inode allocation requires aligned 16k allocations (64x256 byte
> inodes), so you need free extents in the 4-7 block range or larger,
> which you appear to have so it should not be failing. Did you dump
> this histogram while touch was giving ENOSPC errors?
Yes, that was before I grew the filesystem again to get back to
a working state. I killed all the processes using the filesystem,
unmounted it, and ran xfs_db.
> Also, it might be worthwhile dumping the per-ag histograms (use a
> for loop and the "freesp -a <x>" command) - it may be that certain
> AGs are out of contiguous freespace and that is causing the issue...
I've now grown the filesystem again to get it back into a working state;
it's obviously not "production" per se given my janky configuration, but
it is more convenient if I can create files. :)
It's a shame that we lost the chance to do more debugging though.
> FWIW, you shoul drun "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" before
> running the xfsdb comand so that it is not reading stale metadata
> from cache...
I unmounted the filesystem before running xfs_db, so it should be fine.
Didn't even occur to me that it might work to run xfs_db on a block
device that's mounted and active...
I did notice that the unmount command took a minute or two to complete.
-andy
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