[Linux-cluster] GFS hangs, nodes die

Sebastian Walter sebastian.walter at fu-berlin.de
Tue Aug 21 07:52:32 UTC 2007


Hi,

Marc Grimme wrote:
> Do you also see some messages on the console of the nodes. And the
> gfs_tool
> counters would help before that problem occures. So let it run sometimes 
> before to see if locks increase.
> What kind of stress tests are you doing? I bet searching the whole filesystem.
> What makes me wonder is that the gfs_tool glock_purge does not work whereas it 
> worked for me with exactly the same problems. Did you set it _AFTER_ the fs 
> was mounted?
>
>   

That makes me optimistic. I set it after the volume was mounted, so I
will give it another try setting it before mounting it. Then I will also
mail myself the output of the counters every 10 minuts. Let's see...

...with best thanks
Sebastian




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