[Gluster-devel] crashing glusterfsd consistently during benchmark / stresstesting

Anand Avati avati at zresearch.com
Fri May 9 14:06:19 UTC 2008


Daniel,
 do you have core dumps from the crash? can you post the backtrace?

avati

2008/5/9 Daniel Maher <dma+gluster at witbe.net <dma%2Bgluster at witbe.net>>:

> Hello,
>
> I have been running some automated testing using a combination of
> Bonnie++ and FFSB.  Unfortunately, i appear to be able to cause
> glusterfsd to crash (and, on occasion, lock the server) on a reasonably
> regular basis as a result. :(
>
> My environment is described almost exactly by the howto i wrote for the
> wiki, including server and client configs, here :
>
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/High-availability_storage_using_server-side_AFR
>
> My automated testing script is very simple : i simply run a series of
> FFSB tests, then a Bonnie++ test, continuously on both clients.  After
> two or three test cycles, one of the glusterfsd processes in the
> storage cluster will crash.  A sample of the debug log from one of
> these crashes is available on the pastebin :
> http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m5ecb502f
>
> My Bonnie++ command line is as follows :
> $ bonnie++ -d [mountpoint] -x 1 -q
>
> I am using more or less the same FFSB configs available on this page :
> http://tastic.brillig.org/~jwb/zfs-xfs-ext4.html<http://tastic.brillig.org/%7Ejwb/zfs-xfs-ext4.html>
>
> While i realise that this sort of testing is designed to be highly
> academic, it is somewhat troubling that it can cause glusterfsd to
> crash so thoroughly. :/
>
> As always, i'll be happy to provide more information as requested.
>
>
> --
> Daniel Maher <dma AT witbe.net>
>
>
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