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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>While you run it, what is the memory usage? Is the system going into swap?<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our 700GB large volume would take over half a day or more to finish, due to the system constantly having to swap.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hi there, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>No, we are using the earlier version - 1.4.1: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>Thanks<br> Sergey Prilutsky <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><br><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center id=stopSpelling></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><h4><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hi there,<o:p></o:p></span></h4><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><h4><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks<br> Sergey Prilutsky <o:p></o:p></span></h4></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>