[xfs-masters] xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 21.09.2011 04:11, schrieb Dave Chinner:

> How much memory does your test machine have? The performance will be
> vastly different if there is enough RAM to hold the working set of
> inodes and page cache (~20GB all up), and that could be one of the
> factors contributing to the problems.
The livesystems which crash within hours have between 48GB and 64GB RAM. 
But my testing system has only 8GB.

> The above xfs_info output is from your 160GB SSD - what's the output
> from the 1TB device?

The 1TB device is now doing something else and does not have XFS on it 
anymore. But here are the layouts of two livesystems.

xfs_info /dev/sda6
meta-data=/dev/root              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=35767872 
blks
          =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=143071488, imaxpct=25
          =                       sunit=64     swidth=512 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=69888, version=2
          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=64 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0

xfs_info /dev/sda6
meta-data=/dev/root              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=35768000 
blks
          =                       sectsz=512   attr=2
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=143071774, imaxpct=25
          =                       sunit=64     swidth=512 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096   ascii-ci=0
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=2
          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=64 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0


> Also, what phase do you see it hanging in? the random stat phase is
> terribly slow on spinning disks, so if I can avoid that it woul dbe
> nice....
Creating or deleting files. never in the stat phase.

Stefan