Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi,
I am not proud to write another announcement e-mail only 12 days after
the previous one.
When Bug 258 strikes, DRBD's receiver thread is blocked, IO is frozen,
your only way out is to reboot the machine.
To trigger it, you need to drive DRBD into "starving on activity log",
and then interrupt the network connection.
"starving on activity log" means, that maximal number of hot activity
log entries is reached, and therefore new IO requests has to wait
until a previous one is finished. You can watch this by:
echo 1 > /sys/module/drbd/parameters/proc_details
watch -n 1 cat /proc/drbd
Look for "act_log: used:XX/YY". You trigger the bug when XX gets as
high as YY and you have an interruption of you network connectivity
in that moment.
The likelihood gets increased by...
* heavy write IO on your DRBD device.
* the replication link has higher latency, i.e. "long distance".
It is really hard to trigger, but I recommend to upgrade from 8.3.3 or
8.3.4 to 8.3.5.
If you are mirroring via a long distance link, typically in a tree
node configuration I _URGE_ you to upgrade.
8.3.5 (api:86/proto:86-91)
--------
* Fixed a regression introduced shortly before 8.3.3, which might
case a deadlock in DRBD's disconnect code path. (Bugz 258)
* Fixed drbdsetup X resume-io which is needed for the recovery
from the effects of broken fence-peer scripts. (Bugz 256)
* Do not reduce master score of a current Primary on connection loss,
to avoid unnecessary migrations
* Do not display the usage count dialog for /etc/inti.d/drbd status
http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.5.tar.gz
http://git.drbd.org/?p=drbd-8.3.git;a=tag;h=drbd-8.3.5
http://www.linbit.com/support/drbd-8.3.5/
-Phil
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