Re: nginx blocked task when XFS partition is very full

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/2/2011 7:23 AM, Sean Purdy wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> This is on 2.6.32-32-server from Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS
>
> We have nginx fileserving from four disks on a machine.  We're using mogilefs as a 
> distributed file system.  We've come across an issue where when the filesystem is very 
> full, and nginx tries to write to it, we get "task blocked for more than 120 
> seconds" messages from the kernel, nginx hangs and we can no longer access the fs.  
> When a file is uploaded via nginx, nginx writes to a .tmp directory on the disk before 
> moving the file to its destination.  nginx can't be kill -9ed, it needs a reboot.
>
> Has this sort of issue been fixed since 2.6.32?
It would help to see df output for space and inodes of the XFS 
filesystem in question.
--
Stan