[Ocfs2-users] ocfs2 on mailserver lock up

[Sunil Mushran]

You may want to ping Novell to get the 1.2.3 drop of OCFS2. That's
because it is the latest and greatest.

Having said that we'll need more information.
As in, what syscall did strace show as taking time.
What is the memory usage like? cat /proc/meminfo, cat /proc/slabinfo
That is, under production load.

augustasg at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we are running SLES9 SP3 with OCFS2 for mailsystem. There are three 
> nodes in the cluster with shared storage and OCFS2 filesystem on it. 
> The filesystem is used for mailbox storage and is accessed by smtpd 
> ,pop3 and imap processes. The system works fine for a few hours but 
> locks up so that the OCFS2 filesystem is accessed by mail system 
> extremely slowly. It is possible to list the contents of the 
> filesystem or to change the directories, but mailsystem is working 
> slowly. Tracing smtp processes with strace showed that mail is 
> delivered to mailboxes but it is done in a speed of few kilobytes per 
> second.
> This lock up happens under heavier load when the cluster is in 
> production use and when it happens only restart fixes the problem. The 
> umounting of the OCFS2 filesystem is not possible even when all 
> process accessing it are killed. Currently mail system cluster is not 
> used in production so we tried to do some tests, but we were not able 
> to replicate the problem while sending several thousands of messages 
> to a single account.
> The only thing that comes in mind, that the filesystem locks in the 
> case when a file (message) is access by smtp process and pop3 or imap 
> process simultaniously when the processes are running on distinct 
> cluster nodes. This might happen because of lack of global knowledge 
> of localy locked files among OCFS2 cluster nodes.
> Could this be true?
> And what other reasons might be there for the problem?
> Any suggestions on solving the problem?
>
> The system information follows:
> OS: Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 3
> Mailbox format: Maildir
> SMTP daemon: Postfix (postfix-2.2.6-0.1)
> OCFS2 version: 1.2.1
> Kernel Version: 2.6.5-7.276-smp
> Pop3 and imap  daemon: Courier IMAP (courier-imap-4.1.0-1.suse910)
>
> -- 
> Augustas Gutautas
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