Questions regarding journal replay
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 16:31:42 UTC 2009
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
>> * Curtis Doty <Curtis at GreenKey.net>:
>>> Yesterday Ralf Hildebrandt said:
>>>
>>>> The journal replay too quite a while. About 800 seconds.
>>>>
>>> Were there any other background iops on the underlying volume
>>> devices? Like maybe raid reconstruction?
>> I don't think so. The machine never powered off...
>
> Again, 2.6.28.7 failed us and now we're encountering another journal
> replay. Taking ages. This sucks.
>
> Questions:
>
> How can I find out (during normal operation) HOW MUCH of the
> journal is actually in use?
>
> How can I resize the journal to be smaller, thus making a journal
> replay faster?
>
It'd be better to get to the bottom of the problem ... maybe iostat
while it's happening to see if IO is actually happening; run blktrace to
see where IO is going, do a few sysrq-t's to see where threads are at, etc.
Can you find a way to reproduce this at will?
Journal replay should *never* take this long, AFAIK.
-Eric
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