I installed the latest centosplus kernel, and it fixed it.
( <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-March/132931.html> )
Looks like this problem will be fixed in kernel-2.6.32-358.5.1.el6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921958
On 12.4.2013, at 10:38, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
> PowerEdge 2850 with PERC SCSI RAID controller.
> 16GB RAM
> Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
> Using megaraid driver and xfs on 3x 300GB SCSI disks as /dev/sdb (total
> 572GB) (RAID-5)
>
> Stock Centos 6.4 x64, everything updated.
> Kernel : 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
>
> My Load always shows :
>
> top - 10:30:21 up 23:09, 1 users, load average: 0.99, 0.96, 0.79
>
> yet there is no services what-so-ever doing anything.
>
> Using PowerTOP I can see that xfsaild is causing second most wake-ups (after
> kernel core : hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) )
>
>
> < Detailed C-state information is not P-states (frequencies)
> 3.00 Ghz 100.0%
> 1500 Mhz 0.0%
> 1125 Mhz 0.0%
> 750 Mhz 0.0%
> 375 Mhz 0.0%
>
> Wakeups-from-idle per second : 125.1 interval: 10.0s
> no ACPI power usage estimate available
>
> Top causes for wake-ups:
> 47.7% (119.6) <kernel core> : hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer)
> 39.9% (100.0) xfsaild/sdb1 : xfsaild (process_timeout)
>
>
> Again, using TOP I can see that xfsaild is stuck in D state. It never changes.
>
>
> 10050 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:01.17 xfsaild/sdb1
>
>
> My only way to fix this, is either rebooting the machine, unmounting the
> volume
> and mounting it back online. I've been rsyncing data twice between this
> server and another
> one. The rsync process takes about 30m-1hour. After the rsync operation I see
> that
> the xfsaild is stuck in D State and my Load is near 1.00.
>
>
> I'v had no problem what-so-ever on centos 6.3 or early versions on other
> servers.
>
> Any thoughts ?
> Information, help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Svavar
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