[Gluster-users] trouble rebalancing volume

[Brian Cipriano]

Well, it just started working. I did a "modprobe fuse" and another 
gluster restart, and it started working.

But I would still appreciate any ideas about what I could look at 
if/when this happens again.

:)

- brian

On 4/2/12 5:50 PM, Brian Cipriano wrote:
> I wrote about this issue a few weeks ago, but its started happening 
> again.
>
> To summarize, when I try to rebalance a volume I get a strange 
> combination of messages:
>
>> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west start
>> starting rebalance on volume west has been unsuccessful
>> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west status
>> rebalance not started
>> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west stop
>> stopped rebalance process of volume west
>> (after rebalancing 0 files totaling 0 bytes)
>> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west start
>> Rebalance on west is already started
>> $ sudo gluster volume rebalance west status
>> rebalance stopped
>
>
> And no rebalancing actually occurs.
>
> This seems to be intermittent, in that I was able to balance this 
> volume previously. However no amount of uninstalling/reinstalling 
> gluster, stopping/starting the volume, rebooting the machine will 
> cause the issue to go away.
>
> I've just upgraded to Gluster 3.2.6 which did not help.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks so much,
>
> - brian
>
> On 3/9/12 11:55 AM, Brian Cipriano wrote:
>> I didn't see my last message get posted to the list, sorry if I'm 
>> repeating myself.
>>
>> Installing the rdma package solved this problem. I don't know if 
>> there's an issue with the non-rdma deb or what; it must be some 
>> combination issue between my Ubuntu server and the non-rdma deb.
>>
>> One I reinstalled, rebalancing started working.
>>
>> I should mention that this is all on an Amazon EC2 instance - I 
>> started with the stock Ubuntu AMI listed on alestic.com, and only 
>> installed gluster and its dependencies. Maybe something to do with 
>> the Amazon instance.
>>
>> Thanks again for everyone's help on this.
>>
>> - brian
>>
>> On 3/9/12 11:48 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>>> On 03/09/2012 11:29 AM, Brian Cipriano wrote:
>>>> Ah, no I didn't. Because I planned on using only TCP. Should I retry
>>>> reinstalling with the rdma .deb?
>>>
>>> Only if you're going to use ib/rdma.
>>>
>>> —
>>>
>>> Kaleb
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