[drbd-mc] Lots of pvdisplay commands -> RA timeouts
Caspar Smit
c.smit at truebit.nl
Mon Dec 17 21:10:36 CET 2012
2012/12/17 Rasto Levrinc <rasto.levrinc at gmail.com>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Caspar Smit <c.smit at truebit.nl> wrote:
> > 2012/12/17 Rasto Levrinc <rasto.levrinc at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Caspar Smit <c.smit at truebit.nl> wrote:
> >> > Hi Rasto,
> >> >
> >> > I noticed this in one of my clusters:
> >> >
> >> ...
> >>
> >> > /usr/local/bin/lcmc-gui-helper-1.4.2 hw-info-daemon
> >> > root 9869 0.0 0.0 39856 1516 pts/7 S+ 14:49 0:00
> >> > \_ sudo -E -p DRBD MC sudo pwd: /usr/local/bin/lcmc-gui-helper-1.4.2
> >> > hw-info-daemon
> >> > root 9870 0.3 0.0 27676 5000 pts/7 S+ 14:49 0:00
> >> > \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/lcmc-gui-helper-1.4.2 hw-info-daemon
> >> > root 18176 0.0 0.0 9060 1180 pts/7 S+ 14:50 0:00
> >> > \_ sh -c /sbin/pvdisplay -C --noheadings -o pv_name,vg_name
> 2>/dev/null
> >> > root 18177 0.0 0.0 17872 1604 pts/7 D+ 14:50 0:00
> >> > \_ /sbin/pvdisplay -C --noheadings -o pv_name,vg_name
> >> >
> >> > Why is LCMC running so many pvdisplay commands at once?
> >>
> >> Hi Caspar,
> >>
> >> it is running it once in 10 seconds, to see if something has changed.
> >> Can you check what does it do on your nodes?
> >>
> >> /sbin/pvdisplay -C --noheadings -o pv_name,vg_name
> >>
> >> Rasto
> >>
> >
> > # /sbin/pvdisplay -C --noheadings -o pv_name,vg_name
> > /dev/sdb single_array3
> > /dev/sdc single_array3
> > /dev/sdd single_array3
> > /dev/sdh replicated_array1and2
> > /dev/sdi replicated_array1and2
> > /dev/sdj replicated_array1and2
> > /dev/sdk replicated_array1and2
> >
> > I know that LCMC does monitor changes with the lcmc-gui-helper script,
> but I
> > presume the "hw-info-daemon" part has to run only once and not 5(+) times
> > concurrently?
> >
> > Running 5x pvdisplay concurrently can really slow things down.
>
> It shouldn't run this 5x concurrently. What here probably happens, is that
> the hw daemon takes too long and is assumed dead and is restarted.
>
> Can it be that /sbin/pvdisplay -C --noheadings -o pv_name,vg_name
> hangs on or takes very long on your system, at least sometimes?
>
> Yes, that is probably the case because the system is under heavy (NFS)
load.
> Anyway I can/should fix LCMC to deal with this situation.
>
That would be nice :)
Kind regards,
Caspar
> Rasto
>
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> rasto.levrinc at gmail.com
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