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Since it is happening during the reboot and the system is not comletelly up yet, I cannot really check swap at that point.<br><br><div><div><h4>Thanks<br>
Sergey Prilutsky </h4><a target="_blank"></a><div></div></div></div><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: ulf@openlane.com<br>To: sprilutsky@hotmail.com; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:57:27 -0700<br>Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] Linux RHEL 5.2 hangs for 1.5 hrs while fsck'ing the OCFS2 file system<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">While you run it, what is the memory usage? Is the system going into swap?<br><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Our 700GB large volume would take over half a day or more to finish, due to the system constantly having to swap.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue; border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> Sergey Prilutsky [mailto:sprilutsky@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 20, 2011 5:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ulf Zimmermann; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Ocfs2-users] Linux RHEL 5.2 hangs for 1.5 hrs while fsck'ing the OCFS2 file system</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Hi there, </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">No, we are using the earlier version - 1.4.1: </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">[root@box1]# rpm -qa |grep ocfs2-tools<br>ocfs2-tools-debuginfo-1.4.1-1.el5.x86_64<br>ocfs2-tools-1.4.1-1.el5.x86_64 </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br>Thanks<br> Sergey Prilutsky </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br><br><br> </span></p><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" size="2" align="center" width="100%"></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From: ulf@openlane.com<br>To: sprilutsky@hotmail.com; ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:09:31 -0700<br>Subject: RE: [Ocfs2-users] Linux RHEL 5.2 hangs for 1.5 hrs while fsck'ing the OCFS2 file system</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If you are using ocfs2-tools-1.4.4, there is a bug with memory usage. Sunil provided me a patched version, which is afik still not in the downloadable tools version.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"></span></p><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue; border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;"><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com [mailto:ocfs2-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sergey Prilutsky<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:30 AM<br><b>To:</b> ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Ocfs2-users] Linux RHEL 5.2 hangs for 1.5 hrs while fsck'ing the OCFS2 file system</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> </span></p><div><div><h4><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Hi there,</span></h4><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">A month ago we ran into the fsck issue while rebooting one of the Oracle RAC nodes running on Linux RHEL 5.2. It was hanging for 1.5 hours<br>During the reboot, OS portion went fine, then it activated the data volumes in all data vg's with [OK]<br>Then displayed message: Checking filesystems - and it took it 1.5 hrs, then it finished the reboot.<br> <br>Last weekend we rebooted the same box and faced the same issue, however, we sent the break, commented out (last "0" in /etc/fstab did not work neither) all OCFS2 lines in /etc/fstab and it booted fine. Then we mount -a them and life was good.<br> <br>Also we added later on the fastboot to the grub.conf, then booted it - no problem for obvious reasons.<br> <br>If anyone experienced the same issue - would you mind to light into the tonnel and share your experience and perhaps the fix?</span></p><h4><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Thanks<br> Sergey Prilutsky </span></h4></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> </span></p></div></div></div></div> </body>
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