[Gluster-users] NFS over gluster stops responding under write load

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 19:27:37 UTC 2012


Yup, that does look quite similar.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:25 PM, harry mangalam <harry.mangalam at uci.edu> wrote:
> Not expected behavior, but one that has been noted before:
>
> Joe Julian posted this only a few days ago - it sounds similar to your
> problem?
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849526
>
>
> On Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:58:50 AM Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> No replies?  Surely this can't be expected behavior?
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > Greetings,
>> > I'm running version 3.3.0 on Fedora16-x86_64.  I have two bricks setup
>> > with a volume doing basic replication on an XFS formatted filesystem.
>> > I've NFS mounted the volume on a 3rd system, and invoked bonnie++ to
>> > write to the NFS mount point.  After a few minutes, I noticed that
>> > bonnie++ didn't seem to be generating any more progress output, at
>> > which point I started checking assorted logs to see if anything was
>> > wrong.  At that point, I saw that the client system was no longer able
>> > to write to the NFS mount point, and dmesg (and /var/log/messages) was
>> > spewing these warnings like crazy (dozens/second):
>> > nfs: server 10.31.99.166 not responding, still trying trying
>> >
>> > Those warnings started at 14:40:58 on the client system, but oddly
>> > stopped a few seconds later at 14:41:04.  Here's the full bonnie++
>> > output (/mnt/gv0 is where the gluster file system is mounted as an NFS
>> > client):
>> > ########
>> > [root at cuda-ljf0 ~]# bonnie++ -d /mnt/gv0 -u root
>> > Using uid:0, gid:0.
>> > Writing a byte at a time...done
>> > Writing intelligently...done
>> > Rewriting...
>> > ########
>> >
>> > Here's what's in the glusterfs logs at the moment:
>> > ##########
>> > # tail etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log
>> > [2012-09-18 14:54:39.026557] I
>> > [glusterd-handler.c:542:glusterd_req_ctx_create] 0-glusterd: Received
>> > op from uuid: 1d3fb6c7-f5eb-42e9-b2bc-48bd3ed09e62
>> > [2012-09-18 14:54:39.029463] I
>> > [glusterd-handler.c:1417:glusterd_op_stage_send_resp] 0-glusterd:
>> > Responded to stage, ret: 0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:54:46.993426] I
>> > [glusterd-volume-ops.c:492:glusterd_handle_cli_heal_volume]
>> > 0-management: Received heal vol req for volume gv0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:54:46.993503] E [glusterd-utils.c:277:glusterd_lock]
>> > 0-glusterd: Unable to get lock for uuid:
>> > e9ce949d-8521-4868-ad1b-860e0ffd8768, lock held by:
>> > 1d3fb6c7-f5eb-42e9-b2bc-48bd3ed09e62
>> > [2012-09-18 14:54:46.993520] E
>> > [glusterd-handler.c:453:glusterd_op_txn_begin] 0-management: Unable to
>> > acquire local lock, ret: -1
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:47.175521] I
>> > [glusterd-handler.c:860:glusterd_handle_cli_get_volume] 0-glusterd:
>> > Received get vol req
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:47.181048] I
>> > [glusterd-handler.c:860:glusterd_handle_cli_get_volume] 0-glusterd:
>> > Received get vol req
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.306776] I
>> > [glusterd-volume-ops.c:492:glusterd_handle_cli_heal_volume]
>> > 0-management: Received heal vol req for volume gv0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.306834] E [glusterd-utils.c:277:glusterd_lock]
>> > 0-glusterd: Unable to get lock for uuid:
>> > e9ce949d-8521-4868-ad1b-860e0ffd8768, lock held by:
>> > 1d3fb6c7-f5eb-42e9-b2bc-48bd3ed09e62
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.306844] E
>> > [glusterd-handler.c:453:glusterd_op_txn_begin] 0-management: Unable to
>> > acquire local lock, ret: -1
>> > # tail -f cli.log
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:47.176824] I
>> > [cli-rpc-ops.c:479:gf_cli3_1_get_volume_cbk] 0-cli: Received resp to
>> > get vol: 0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:47.180959] I
>> > [cli-rpc-ops.c:732:gf_cli3_1_get_volume_cbk] 0-cli: Returning: 0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:47.181128] I
>> > [cli-rpc-ops.c:479:gf_cli3_1_get_volume_cbk] 0-cli: Received resp to
>> > get vol: 0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:47.181167] I
>> > [cli-rpc-ops.c:732:gf_cli3_1_get_volume_cbk] 0-cli: Returning: 0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:47.181214] I [input.c:46:cli_batch] 0-: Exiting with: 0
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.244795] W
>> > [rpc-transport.c:174:rpc_transport_load] 0-rpc-transport: missing
>> > 'option transport-type'. defaulting to "socket"
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.307054] I
>> > [cli-rpc-ops.c:5905:gf_cli3_1_heal_volume_cbk] 0-cli: Received resp to
>> > heal volume
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.307274] W [dict.c:2339:dict_unserialize]
>> > (-->/usr/lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(rpc_clnt_notify+0xa5) [0x328ca10365]
>> > (-->/usr/lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(rpc_clnt_handle_reply+0xa5)
>> > [0x328ca0f965] (-->gluster(gf_cli3_1_heal_volume_cbk+0x1d4)
>> > [0x4225e4]))) 0-dict: buf is null!
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.307289] E
>> > [cli-rpc-ops.c:5930:gf_cli3_1_heal_volume_cbk] 0-: Unable to allocate
>> > memory
>> > [2012-09-18 14:55:49.307314] I [input.c:46:cli_batch] 0-: Exiting with: -1
>> > ##########
>> >
>> > I'd be happy to provide more if someone requests something specific.
>> >
>> > Not sure what other information to provide at this point, but here's
>> > the basics of the gluster setup:
>> > ##########
>> > # gluster volume info all
>> >
>> > Volume Name: gv0
>> > Type: Replicate
>> > Volume ID: 200046fc-1b5f-460c-b54b-96932e31ed3c
>> > Status: Started
>> > Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
>> > Transport-type: tcp
>> > Bricks:
>> > Brick1: 10.31.99.165:/mnt/sdb1
>> > Brick2: 10.31.99.166:/mnt/sdb1
>> > # gluster volume heal gv0 info
>> > operation failed
>> > ##########
>> >
>> > I just noticed that glusterfs seems to be rapidly heading towards OOM
>> > territory.  The glusterfs daemon is currently consuming 90% of MEM
>> > according to top.



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