[DRBD-user] Zombie, Zombie?

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Apr 26 16:01:52 CEST 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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/ 2004-04-26 15:46:50 +0200
\ Andreas Semt:
> Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> 
> >/ 2004-04-26 13:37:04 +0200
> >\ Andreas Semt:
> >
> >>Another question: I have a directory on a partition on top of a drbd 
> >>device. The load average was very high for that machine (around 6).
> >>When i tried to do a "ls -l" in that directory, nothing happens, the "ls 
> >>-l" command hangs. However there was no drbd traffic at all on the drbd 
> >>device for the specific partition. Could it be that some drbd process 
> >>was responsible for the "hang"? How can I detect which process access 
> >>the drbd device at a particular time?
> >
> >
> >in normal operation, with drbd 0.6,  you should have
> >drbd_receiver, drbd_asender on both nodes.
> >when sync is in progress, you have additionally the drbd_syncer.
> >
> >in 0.7, you have regardless of sync, on both nodes:
> >drbd_receiver, drbd_asender, drbd_worker.
> >
> 
> Oh my ... drbd_receiver is not on one of the nodes!
> 
> Here the output (i have four drbd devices):
> 
> node1:~# ps aux | grep drbd
> root       255  0.8  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   10:01   2:55 [drbdd_0]

oops, my fault :))
drbdd is "the" drbd daemon, which IS the drbd_receiver thread :)

	Lars Ellenberg



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