Re: ftp server crashes on heavy load: possible scheduler bug

["Pedro Venda (SYSADM)" <pjvenda@rnl.ist.utl.pt>]

On Friday 29 April 2005 13:59, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> > We've made some changes on our ftp server, and since that it's been
> > crashing frequently (everyday) with a kernel panic.
> >
> > We've configured the 5 IDE 160GB drives into md raid5 arrays with LVM on
> > top of that. All filesystems are reiserfs. The other change we made to
> > the server was changing from a patched 2.6.10-ac12 kernel into a newer
> > 2.6.11.7.
> >
> > Not being able to see the whole stacktrace on screen, we've started a
> > netconsole to investigate. Started the server and loaded it pretty bad
> > with rsyncs and such... until it crashed after just 20 minutes.
> >
> > The netconsole log was surprising - "kernel BUG at kernel/sched.c:2634!"
> >
> > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> 5 IDE disks into one MD raid5 into one LVM volume with reiserfs on top
> of it? Could you give me some way to reproduce the specific load you put
> on the machine plus your .config and I'll see what I can do.

ok, current setup is:

5 160GB IDE drives spread across 2 controller cards, one onboard and a PCI 
promise ultra133 (Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)). All but two of 
the drives are alone in an IDE channel.

boot and system partitions are mirrored [raid1] across all drives (not that 
silly because of uniform partitioning scheme for raid5 array).

About 150GB of each drive belong to a RAID5 array with total size of 576.73 
GB.

that raid5 array supports two LVM volumes of 320 and 256GB.

df -h:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md5               19G  2.6G   17G  14% /
/dev/big/ftp          320G  260G   61G  82% /home/ftp
/dev/big/other        257G  149G  108G  58% /home/other
none                  252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/md1               69M  8.7M   57M  14% /boot

lvscan:
  ACTIVE            '/dev/big/ftp' [320.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/big/other' [256.73 GB] inherit

pvscan: 
PV /dev/md6   VG big   lvm2 [576.73 GB / 0    free]
Total: 1 [576.73 GB] / in use: 1 [576.73 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

mdstat:
Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] 
md2 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0]
      136448 blocks [2/2] [UU]      
md7 : active raid1 hdg2[1] hde2[0]
      136448 blocks [2/2] [UU]      
md1 : active raid1 hdh1[4] hdg1[3] hde1[2] hdc1[1] hda1[0]
      72192 blocks [5/5] [UUUUU]      
md5 : active raid5 hdh5[4] hdg5[3] hde5[2] hdc5[1] hda5[0]
      19566592 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]    
md6 : active raid5 hdh6[4] hdg6[3] hde6[2] hdc6[1] hda6[0]
      604750336 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]      
unused devices: <none>

hope it helps.

regards,
pedro venda.
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Pedro João Lopes Venda
email: pjvenda < at > rnl.ist.utl.pt
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Equipa de Administração de Sistemas
Rede das Novas Licenciaturas (RNL)
Instituto Superior Técnico
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