Re: [expert] Mandy Locks Up on simple tar!
Thanks for the response. I will switch to a new disk today. What i have been doing is saving/making a full system backup to a scsi disk (sda1). Then when the main disk fails, I simply restore from sda1. It has worked so well in the past, only this time I cant restore the same saved filesets (/, /usr) cause the system locks up before I finish the restore process. If I dont perform any tar process, the system works OK for number of days, as Memory used keeps climbing. When Mem used==Mem Avail, the system locks up again, until a reboot. PS and top both have not been able to show me what is eating up all the memory. Mind u, this box has 2GB worth of it, and it is doing nothing more than being a NFS server!! I will update of performance after disk switch, but if there anymore hints, they are welcomed (B4 i throw it out-tha-window!!) _Thanks ALL, and esp. civilme! --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Sounds like your first problem and this problem could be somehow connected but not sure how. 2 questions Can you do the tar in smaller pieces. (it could be a single fuzzed up file or sector on the HDD is causing the problem read/write there is hanging the box. If so, doing it in smaller bits will help you locate it. You can always tar a group of tars later. If you don't want to or can't do smaller pieces try tar -cvvf etc etc etc. tarout.txt. This will give you a visual of what is happening as the tar is going along. Then when the box hangs You'll know the suspect file. It will be the last one the box was able to write to the tarout.txt file. James On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:19, Tru64 User wrote: Mandy 9.0, 2GB RAM, 500MB swap, Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz CPU...locks up on a simple tar Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing i can do!! Can't figure out whats causing it!! What can be causing this?? tar is for a 5GB directory (largest file mandrake iso 650Mb), on a RAID array , sda, local to this server. Results of vmstat:: cere@/home$ vmstat 2 20 procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo incs us sy id 0 1 0996 7364 76940 1869576 0 0 83 66 6993 0 3 97 1 0 0996 7308 76940 1869628 0 0 13324 1280 480 932 0 27 73 3 0 4996 9484 76756 1867620 0 0 19164 148216 22974 9176 0 50 50 0 1 1 1252 10372 76804 1867336 0 402 18788 504 515 1270 0 22 78 2 0 2 1508 10472 76912 1867544 0 0 21652 1262 589 1349 0 25 75 1 0 0 1508 10304 76792 1867784 0 0 21526 0 383 1294 1 12 87 0 1 0 1508 10428 76792 1867688 0 0 20180 0 399 1238 0 13 87 0 1 0 1508 10364 76784 1867780 0 0 14414 1220 462 971 0 28 72 1 0 0 1508 10356 76784 1867788 0 0 21078 0 376 1227 0 12 88 2 0 1 1508 10104 75136 1869820 0 0 14028 1280 450 882 0 26 74 4 1 2 1508 11828 75112 1868268 0 0 8008 51226 7991 3106 0 50 50 2 1 2 1508 9380 75280 1870516 0 0 12724 97310 15090 6304 0 50 50 0 1 0 1508 9556 75288 1870356 0 0 18112 104 420 1230 0 13 86 0 1 2 1508 9064 75436 1870628 0 0 18322 1294 429 1189 0 11 89 Output of PS:: 3:06pm up 4:10, 3 users, load average: 3.95, 3.89, 2.62 75 processes: 73 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 39.4% system, 33.1% nice, 61.2% idle Mem: 2063808K av, 2056416K used, 7392K free, 0K shrd, 78872K buff Swap: 554200K av, 2660K used, 551540K free 1864368K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT N# %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 3 root 20 19 00 0 RWN 0 33.1 0.0 3:47 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4044 root 9 0 2008 2008 1640 S 0 1.6 0.0 0:03 sshd 7 root 12 0 00 0 DW0 1.2 0.0 0:37 kupdated 1937 root 7 -10 24668 15M 2144 S0 0.8 0.7 1:06 X 3842 root 10 0 9992 9992 8452 S 0 0.6 0.4 0:07 kdm_greet 20 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.4 0.0 0:04 memsorter 5 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.3 0.0 0:58 kswapd 2238 root 9 0 1576 1576 1464 S 0 0.3 0.0 0:00 httpd 1 root 10 0 484 484 420 S 0 0.1 0.0 0:05 init 15 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd 19 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:29 oM_infoD 3190 root 10 0 2236 2236 1312 S 0 0.1 0.1 0:24 cupsd 4121 mollel10 0 904 904 716 R 0 0.1 0.0 0:03
Re: [expert] Mandy Locks Up on simple tar!
On Friday 21 February 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Sounds like your first problem and this problem could be somehow connected but not sure how. 2 questions Can you do the tar in smaller pieces. (it could be a single fuzzed up file or sector on the HDD is causing the problem read/write there is hanging the box. If so, doing it in smaller bits will help you locate it. You can always tar a group of tars later. If you don't want to or can't do smaller pieces try tar -cvvf etc etc etc. tarout.txt. This will give you a visual of what is happening as the tar is going along. Then when the box hangs You'll know the suspect file. It will be the last one the box was able to write to the tarout.txt file. James On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:19, Tru64 User wrote: Mandy 9.0, 2GB RAM, 500MB swap, Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz CPU...locks up on a simple tar Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing i can do!! Can't figure out whats causing it!! What can be causing this?? tar is for a 5GB directory (largest file mandrake iso 650Mb), on a RAID array , sda, local to this server. Results of vmstat:: cere/home$ vmstat 2 20 procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobi bo incs us sy id 0 1 0996 7364 76940 1869576 0 083 66 6993 0 3 97 1 0 0996 7308 76940 1869628 0 0 13324 1280 480 932 0 27 73 3 0 4996 9484 76756 1867620 0 0 19164 148216 22974 9176 0 50 50 0 1 1 1252 10372 76804 1867336 0 402 18788 504 515 1270 0 22 78 2 0 2 1508 10472 76912 1867544 0 0 21652 1262 589 1349 0 25 75 1 0 0 1508 10304 76792 1867784 0 0 21526 0 383 1294 1 12 87 0 1 0 1508 10428 76792 1867688 0 0 20180 0 399 1238 0 13 87 0 1 0 1508 10364 76784 1867780 0 0 14414 1220 462 971 0 28 72 1 0 0 1508 10356 76784 1867788 0 0 21078 0 376 1227 0 12 88 2 0 1 1508 10104 75136 1869820 0 0 14028 1280 450 882 0 26 74 4 1 2 1508 11828 75112 1868268 0 0 8008 51226 7991 3106 0 50 50 2 1 2 1508 9380 75280 1870516 0 0 12724 97310 15090 6304 0 50 50 0 1 0 1508 9556 75288 1870356 0 0 18112 104 420 1230 0 13 86 0 1 2 1508 9064 75436 1870628 0 0 18322 1294 429 1189 0 11 89 Output of PS:: 3:06pm up 4:10, 3 users, load average: 3.95, 3.89, 2.62 75 processes: 73 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 39.4% system, 33.1% nice, 61.2% idle Mem: 2063808K av, 2056416K used, 7392K free, 0K shrd, 78872K buff Swap: 554200K av, 2660K used, 551540K free 1864368K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT N# %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 3 root 20 19 00 0 RWN 0 33.1 0.0 3:47 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4044 root 9 0 2008 2008 1640 S 0 1.6 0.0 0:03 sshd 7 root 12 0 00 0 DW0 1.2 0.0 0:37 kupdated 1937 root 7 -10 24668 15M 2144 S0 0.8 0.7 1:06 X 3842 root 10 0 9992 9992 8452 S 0 0.6 0.4 0:07 kdm_greet 20 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.4 0.0 0:04 memsorter 5 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.3 0.0 0:58 kswapd 2238 root 9 0 1576 1576 1464 S 0 0.3 0.0 0:00 httpd 1 root 10 0 484 484 420 S 0 0.1 0.0 0:05 init 15 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd 19 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:29 oM_infoD 3190 root 10 0 2236 2236 1312 S 0 0.1 0.1 0:24 cupsd 4121 mollel10 0 904 904 716 R 0 0.1 0.0 0:03 mtop 2 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 4 root 19 19 00 0 SWN 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 6 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 1:26 bdflush 9 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_0 10 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_1 11 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 16 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oMfs_main_server 17 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oM_migd 18 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oMFS_gc 792 rpc9 0 532 532 448 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap 806 root 9 0 588 588 476 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 syslogd 814 root 9 0 1172 1172 416 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd 854 rpcuser9 0 744 744 640 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 rpc.statd 869 root 9 0 500 500 432 S 0 0.0
Re: [expert] Mandy Locks Up on simple tar!
CPU...locks up on a simple tar Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing i can do!! I hadn't done the vmstat like you, but I've had this problem before with different distributions including older Mandrakes, when my primary disk was a 1.6 gig Maxstor. That drive has since been relegated to /var, whilst everything else is on a 30 gig IBM drive. I would guess that the problem was bad sectors on the drive. As I recall, the box froze every time I did a tar (backing up to tape) when reading certain files. I don't recall seeing a lockup during a block write operation, only when the blocks are read. Now why it should lock up during a 'tar' is still a mystery. I would have half expected error messages in the logs if these files were read by another method. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandy Locks Up on simple tar!
Mandy 9.0, 2GB RAM, 500MB swap, Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz CPU...locks up on a simple tar Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing i can do!! Can't figure out whats causing it!! What can be causing this?? tar is for a 5GB directory (largest file mandrake iso 650Mb), on a RAID array , sda, local to this server. Results of vmstat:: cere@/home$ vmstat 2 20 procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobi bo incs us sy id 0 1 0996 7364 76940 1869576 0 083 66 6993 0 3 97 1 0 0996 7308 76940 1869628 0 0 13324 1280 480 932 0 27 73 3 0 4996 9484 76756 1867620 0 0 19164 148216 22974 9176 0 50 50 0 1 1 1252 10372 76804 1867336 0 402 18788 504 515 1270 0 22 78 2 0 2 1508 10472 76912 1867544 0 0 21652 1262 589 1349 0 25 75 1 0 0 1508 10304 76792 1867784 0 0 21526 0 383 1294 1 12 87 0 1 0 1508 10428 76792 1867688 0 0 20180 0 399 1238 0 13 87 0 1 0 1508 10364 76784 1867780 0 0 14414 1220 462 971 0 28 72 1 0 0 1508 10356 76784 1867788 0 0 21078 0 376 1227 0 12 88 2 0 1 1508 10104 75136 1869820 0 0 14028 1280 450 882 0 26 74 4 1 2 1508 11828 75112 1868268 0 0 8008 51226 7991 3106 0 50 50 2 1 2 1508 9380 75280 1870516 0 0 12724 97310 15090 6304 0 50 50 0 1 0 1508 9556 75288 1870356 0 0 18112 104 420 1230 0 13 86 0 1 2 1508 9064 75436 1870628 0 0 18322 1294 429 1189 0 11 89 Output of PS:: 3:06pm up 4:10, 3 users, load average: 3.95, 3.89, 2.62 75 processes: 73 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 39.4% system, 33.1% nice, 61.2% idle Mem: 2063808K av, 2056416K used, 7392K free, 0K shrd, 78872K buff Swap: 554200K av, 2660K used, 551540K free 1864368K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT N# %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 3 root 20 19 00 0 RWN 0 33.1 0.0 3:47 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4044 root 9 0 2008 2008 1640 S 0 1.6 0.0 0:03 sshd 7 root 12 0 00 0 DW0 1.2 0.0 0:37 kupdated 1937 root 7 -10 24668 15M 2144 S0 0.8 0.7 1:06 X 3842 root 10 0 9992 9992 8452 S 0 0.6 0.4 0:07 kdm_greet 20 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.4 0.0 0:04 memsorter 5 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.3 0.0 0:58 kswapd 2238 root 9 0 1576 1576 1464 S 0 0.3 0.0 0:00 httpd 1 root 10 0 484 484 420 S 0 0.1 0.0 0:05 init 15 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd 19 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:29 oM_infoD 3190 root 10 0 2236 2236 1312 S 0 0.1 0.1 0:24 cupsd 4121 mollel10 0 904 904 716 R 0 0.1 0.0 0:03 mtop 2 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 4 root 19 19 00 0 SWN 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 6 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 1:26 bdflush 9 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_0 10 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_1 11 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 16 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oMfs_main_server 17 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oM_migd 18 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oMFS_gc 792 rpc9 0 532 532 448 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap 806 root 9 0 588 588 476 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 syslogd 814 root 9 0 1172 1172 416 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd 854 rpcuser9 0 744 744 640 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 rpc.statd 869 root 9 0 500 500 432 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:03 gpm 931 xfs9 0 4304 4304 908 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 xfs 970 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 rpciod 971 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 lockd 1903 root 9 0 676 676 620 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kdm 1917 daemon 8 0 540 540 472 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 atd 1938 root 9 0 1244 1244 1124 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 sshd 1959 root 9 0 948 948 792 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 xinetd __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandy Locks Up on simple tar!
Sounds like your first problem and this problem could be somehow connected but not sure how. 2 questions Can you do the tar in smaller pieces. (it could be a single fuzzed up file or sector on the HDD is causing the problem read/write there is hanging the box. If so, doing it in smaller bits will help you locate it. You can always tar a group of tars later. If you don't want to or can't do smaller pieces try tar -cvvf etc etc etc. tarout.txt. This will give you a visual of what is happening as the tar is going along. Then when the box hangs You'll know the suspect file. It will be the last one the box was able to write to the tarout.txt file. James On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:19, Tru64 User wrote: Mandy 9.0, 2GB RAM, 500MB swap, Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz CPU...locks up on a simple tar Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing i can do!! Can't figure out whats causing it!! What can be causing this?? tar is for a 5GB directory (largest file mandrake iso 650Mb), on a RAID array , sda, local to this server. Results of vmstat:: cere/home$ vmstat 2 20 procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobi bo incs us sy id 0 1 0996 7364 76940 1869576 0 083 66 6993 0 3 97 1 0 0996 7308 76940 1869628 0 0 13324 1280 480 932 0 27 73 3 0 4996 9484 76756 1867620 0 0 19164 148216 22974 9176 0 50 50 0 1 1 1252 10372 76804 1867336 0 402 18788 504 515 1270 0 22 78 2 0 2 1508 10472 76912 1867544 0 0 21652 1262 589 1349 0 25 75 1 0 0 1508 10304 76792 1867784 0 0 21526 0 383 1294 1 12 87 0 1 0 1508 10428 76792 1867688 0 0 20180 0 399 1238 0 13 87 0 1 0 1508 10364 76784 1867780 0 0 14414 1220 462 971 0 28 72 1 0 0 1508 10356 76784 1867788 0 0 21078 0 376 1227 0 12 88 2 0 1 1508 10104 75136 1869820 0 0 14028 1280 450 882 0 26 74 4 1 2 1508 11828 75112 1868268 0 0 8008 51226 7991 3106 0 50 50 2 1 2 1508 9380 75280 1870516 0 0 12724 97310 15090 6304 0 50 50 0 1 0 1508 9556 75288 1870356 0 0 18112 104 420 1230 0 13 86 0 1 2 1508 9064 75436 1870628 0 0 18322 1294 429 1189 0 11 89 Output of PS:: 3:06pm up 4:10, 3 users, load average: 3.95, 3.89, 2.62 75 processes: 73 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 39.4% system, 33.1% nice, 61.2% idle Mem: 2063808K av, 2056416K used, 7392K free, 0K shrd, 78872K buff Swap: 554200K av, 2660K used, 551540K free 1864368K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT N# %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 3 root 20 19 00 0 RWN 0 33.1 0.0 3:47 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4044 root 9 0 2008 2008 1640 S 0 1.6 0.0 0:03 sshd 7 root 12 0 00 0 DW0 1.2 0.0 0:37 kupdated 1937 root 7 -10 24668 15M 2144 S0 0.8 0.7 1:06 X 3842 root 10 0 9992 9992 8452 S 0 0.6 0.4 0:07 kdm_greet 20 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.4 0.0 0:04 memsorter 5 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.3 0.0 0:58 kswapd 2238 root 9 0 1576 1576 1464 S 0 0.3 0.0 0:00 httpd 1 root 10 0 484 484 420 S 0 0.1 0.0 0:05 init 15 root 10 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd 19 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.1 0.0 0:29 oM_infoD 3190 root 10 0 2236 2236 1312 S 0 0.1 0.1 0:24 cupsd 4121 mollel10 0 904 904 716 R 0 0.1 0.0 0:03 mtop 2 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 4 root 19 19 00 0 SWN 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 6 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 1:26 bdflush 9 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_0 10 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 scsi_eh_1 11 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 16 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oMfs_main_server 17 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oM_migd 18 root 9 0 00 0 SW0 0.0 0.0 0:00 oMFS_gc 792 rpc9 0 532 532 448 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap 806 root 9 0 588 588 476 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 syslogd 814 root 9 0 1172 1172 416 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd 854 rpcuser9 0 744 744 640 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 rpc.statd 869 root 9 0 500 500 432 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:03 gpm 931 xfs9 0 4304 4304 908 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 xfs 970 root 9
