[Cluster-devel] message in syslog: shrink_slab: gfs2_glock_shrink_scan+0x0/0x240 [gfs2] negative objects to delete nr=xxxxxxxxxxxx

[Andrew Price]

Hi Bernd,

On 08/12/2021 16:50, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i hope this is the right place for asking about GFS2.
> Yesterday one of my two nodes HA-cluster got slower and slower, until it was fenced.
> In /var/log/messages i found this message repeated often before the system got slower:
> shrink_slab: gfs2_glock_shrink_scan+0x0/0x240 [gfs2] negative objects to delete nr=xxxxxxxxxxxx
> What does it mean ? Is it a problem ?

This could be the same issue as 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1599324

The last comment in that bug mentions a kernel patch that is probably 
missing from your distro kernel version.

Cheers,
Andy

> 
> My Setup:
> SuSE SLES 12 SP5
> Kernel 4.12.14-122.46-default
> Pacemaker 1.1.23
> corosync 2.3.6-9.13.1
> gfs2-utils-3.1.6-1.101.x86_64
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bernd
>