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<p>On 12.02.2015 19:09, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:</p>
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<pre>On 02/12/2015 11:34 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:</pre>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">On 02/12/2015 08:15 PM, Xavier Hernandez wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%">I've made some more investigation and the problem seems worse. It seems that NFS sends a huge amount of requests without waiting for answers (I've had more than 1400 requests ongoing). Probably there will be many factors that can influence on the load that this causes, and one of them could be ec, but it's not related exclusively to ec. I've repeated the test using a replica 3 and a replica 2 volumes and the problem still happens. The test basically writes a file to an NFS mount using 'dd'. The file has a size of 1GB. With a smaller file, the test passes successfully.</blockquote>
Using NFS client and gluster NFS server on same machine with BIG file dd operations is known to cause hangs. anon-fd-quota.t used to give similar problems so we changed the test to not involve NFS mounts.</blockquote>
<pre>I don't re-collect the exact scenario. Avati found the deadlock of
memory allocation, when I just joined gluster, in 2010. Raghavendra Bhat
raised this bug then. CCed him to the thread as well if he knows the
exact scenario.</pre>
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<pre>I've been doing some tests with Shyam and it seems that the root cause is the edge-triggered epoll introduced in the multi-threaded epoll patch. It has a side effect that makes the outstanding-rpc-limit option near to useless and gluster gets overflowed of requests, causing timeouts and disconnections on slow/busy machines.</pre>
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<pre>I've opened bug #1192114 for this problem.</pre>
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<pre>Xavi</pre>
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