The last statement about how it happens only on one of the partitions 
is what intrigues me.

How old are each of these partitions?

What are the usage patterns / rates of each partition?
(Relative to one another..as in does one get heavier use?)

I'm wondering if you are seeing what I see here...
http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com/msg05306.html



At 02:00 PM 4/8/2012, ocfs2-users-requ...@oracle.com wrote:
>Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:54:52 -0700
>From: Jay V <jvas...@gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 performance and debug help
>To: Adelino Monteiro <adelino.monte...@gmail.com>
>
>I have a similar blocking/hanging/stall issue. On Oracle 6.2/x64. We
>are running OCFS2 on 3 partitions about 14-15TB each. One of the
>partitions has been running extremely slowly too. They are running on
>the same hardware-- LSI HW Raid Cards and Enterprise Drives. I am
>running over drbd and nfsd.
>
>I am getting really slow performance in writes.?The process
>[jbd2-drbd-18] seems to be stuck for a long length of time (about 2
>minutes) before it finally commits. This jbd2-drbd2 prevents any other
>writes from happening which stalls the system.
>This would be from "ps auxr"
>USER?????? PID %CPU %MEM??? VSZ?? RSS TTY????? STAT START?? TIME COMMAND
>root????? 6374? 0.0? 0.0????? 0???? 0 ???????? D??? Apr03?? 0:28 
>[jbd2/drbd2-18]
>root????? 6876? 0.0? 0.0????? 0? ???0 ???????? D??? Apr06?? 0:11 [nfsd]
>root????? 6884? 0.0? 0.0????? 0???? 0 ???????? D??? Apr06?? 0:09 [nfsd]
>root????? 6999? 0.0? 0.0????? 0???? 0 ???????? D??? Apr06?? 0:45 [nfsd]
>root????? 7046? 0.0? 0.0????? 0???? 0 ???????? D??? Apr06?? 0:09 [nfsd]
>root????? 7053? 0.0? 0.0????? 0???? 0 ???????? D??? Apr06?? 0:09 [nfsd]
>root????? 7054? 0.0? 0.0????? 0???? 0 ???????? D??? Apr06?? 0:08 [nfsd]
>
>Running "scan_locks2" shows nothing. Nothing is held up locking wise.
>It seems to happen more with files copying about 1MB or larger. It
>only happens for me on my second partition, but not the other 2. It
>seems to super slow in writes. Reads are fast.
>
>I hope to find a solution quickly too. I wonder it is because we have
>very large partitions.
>
>Thanks, Jay



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