Re: dom0 suddenly blocking on all access to md device

2021-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Rob, On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 05:47:49PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote: > mdadm.conf has email reporting capabilities to alert to failing drives. > Test that you receive emails. I do receive those emails, when such things occur, but the drives are not failing. Devices are not kicked out of MD array

Re: dom0 suddenly blocking on all access to md device

2021-06-12 Thread Rob Townley
mdadm.conf has email reporting capabilities to alert to failing drives. Test that you receive emails. Use mdadm to run tests on the raid. iostat may indicate a failing drive as well smartctl -a /dev/ On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:12 AM Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > Unfortunately I'm still experi

Re: dom0 suddenly blocking on all access to md device

2021-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, Unfortunately I'm still experiencing this problem as described in the earlier email below and I'm running out of ideas for things to test / try. What was fine for a long time (~5 years): Debian jessie dom0 kernel 4.9.x with Xen 4.10. Below issues started happening on same machines once do

Re: dom0 suddenly blocking on all access to md device

2021-03-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:39:27PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > just lately I've been sporadically having issues where dom0 blocks > or severely slows down on all access to the particular md device > that hosts all domU block devices. This just happened again on the same server as the previo

Re: dom0 suddenly blocking on all access to md device

2021-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
Oops, I didn't finish this sentence before sending: On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:39:27PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Also, it's always the md device that the guest block devices are > on that is stalled - IO to other devices in dom0 …seems fine. Thanks, Andy

dom0 suddenly blocking on all access to md device

2021-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, I suspect this might be an issue in the dom0 kernel (Debian buster, kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64), but just lately I've been sporadically having issues where dom0 blocks or severely slows down on all access to the particular md device that hosts all domU block devices. Setup in dom0: an md RAID10 t