[Gluster-users] Gluster High CPU/Clients Hanging on Heavy Writes

Yuhao Zhang zzyzxd at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 04:56:36 UTC 2018 

Atin, that was my typo... I think it was glusterfsd, but not 100% sure. I will keep an eye when it happens next time.

Thank you all for looking into this! I tried another transfer earlier today but it didn't get the chance to reach the point where glusterfsd starts to fail before we needed to start the production mission critical jobs. I am going to try another time next week and report back to the thread.

Btw, I took a look into syslog and find this event happened right at the time when clients started to hang:

Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142702] INFO: task glusteriotwr3:6895 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142760]       Tainted: P           O    4.4.0-116-generic #140-Ubuntu
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142805] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142863] glusteriotwr3   D ffff88102c18fb98     0  6895      1 0x00000000
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142872]  ffff88102c18fb98 ffff88102c18fb68 ffff88085be0b800 ffff88103f314600
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142877]  ffff88102c190000 ffff8805397fe0f4 ffff88103f314600 00000000ffffffff
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142882]  ffff8805397fe0f8 ffff88102c18fbb0 ffffffff8184ae45 ffff8805397fe0f0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142887] Call Trace:
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142899]  [<ffffffff8184ae45>] schedule+0x35/0x80
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142904]  [<ffffffff8184b0ee>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142910]  [<ffffffff8184cd29>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xb9/0x130
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142915]  [<ffffffff8184cdbf>] mutex_lock+0x1f/0x30
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142922]  [<ffffffff8122071d>] walk_component+0x21d/0x310
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142926]  [<ffffffff81221ba1>] link_path_walk+0x191/0x5c0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142931]  [<ffffffff8121ff3b>] ? path_init+0x1eb/0x3c0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142935]  [<ffffffff812220cc>] path_lookupat+0x7c/0x110
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142940]  [<ffffffff8123a828>] ? __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x128/0x1a0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142944]  [<ffffffff81223d01>] filename_lookup+0xb1/0x180
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142948]  [<ffffffff8123aadb>] ? setxattr+0x18b/0x200
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142955]  [<ffffffff811f2109>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x189/0x1f0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142960]  [<ffffffff81223906>] ? getname_flags+0x56/0x1f0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142964]  [<ffffffff81223ea6>] user_path_at_empty+0x36/0x40
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142970]  [<ffffffff81218d76>] vfs_fstatat+0x66/0xc0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142975]  [<ffffffff81219331>] SYSC_newlstat+0x31/0x60
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142980]  [<ffffffff8121dade>] ? path_put+0x1e/0x30
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142984]  [<ffffffff8123ac0f>] ? path_setxattr+0xbf/0xe0
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142989]  [<ffffffff8121946e>] SyS_newlstat+0xe/0x10
Aug  4 01:54:45 ch1prdtick03 kernel: [30601.142996]  [<ffffffff8184efc8>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1c/0xbb



> On Aug 5, 2018, at 08:39, Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 at 13:29, Yuhao Zhang <zzyzxd at gmail.com <mailto:zzyzxd at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Sorry, what I meant was, if I start the transfer now and get glusterd into zombie status, 
> 
> glusterd or glusterfsd?
> 
> it's unlikely that I can fully recover the server without a reboot.
> 
> 
>> On Aug 5, 2018, at 02:55, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com <mailto:rgowdapp at redhat.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Yuhao Zhang <zzyzxd at gmail.com <mailto:zzyzxd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> This is a semi-production server and I can't bring it down right now. Will try to get the monitoring output when I get a chance. 
>> 
>> Collecting top output doesn't require to bring down servers.
>> 
>> 
>> As I recall, the high CPU processes are brick daemons (glusterfsd) and htop showed they were in status D. However, I saw zero zpool IO as clients were all hanging.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 5, 2018, at 02:38, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com <mailto:rgowdapp at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Yuhao Zhang <zzyzxd at gmail.com <mailto:zzyzxd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I am running into a situation that heavy write causes Gluster server went into zombie with many high CPU processes and all clients hangs, it is almost 100% reproducible on my machine. Hope someone can help.
>>> 
>>> Can you give us the output of monitioring these processes with High cpu usage captured in the duration when your tests are running?
>>> 
>>> MON_INTERVAL=10 # can be increased for very long runs
>>> top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > /tmp/top_proc.${HOSTNAME}.txt # CPU utilization by process
>>> top -bHd $MON_INTERVAL > /tmp/top_thr.${HOSTNAME}.txt # CPU utilization by thread
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I started to observe this issue when running rsync to copy files from another server and I thought it might be because Gluster doesn't like rsync's delta transfer with a lot of small writes. However, I was able to reproduce this with "rsync --whole-file --inplace", or even with cp or scp. It usually appears after starting the transfer for a few hours, but sometimes can happen within several minutes.
>>> 
>>> Since this is a single node Gluster distributed volume, I tried to transfer files directly onto the server bypassing Gluster clients, but it still caused the same issue.
>>> 
>>> It is running on top of a ZFS RAIDZ2 dataset. Options are attached. Also, I attached the statedump generated when my clients hung, and volume options.
>>> 
>>> - Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 / 4.4.0-116-generic
>>> - GlusterFS 3.12.8
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Yuhao
>>> 
>>> 
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