System hang due to high iowait

[Wayne Pinette]

Hmmm Im not sure.  All of my drives are ext3 drives (including the one
with that patch I sent).  
I know the server which I had to do it on isn't handling large data
files, but rather many many many
small ones (mail server with anti-virus scan which handles ~1800
messages an hour so it's all disk io).

Im still guessing you want to mess with the pagecache settings. 
Perhaps try a larger number.
(2 10 75 /proc/sys/vm/pagecache) .


Wayner





>>> csu4 at fedex.com 06/10/2004 11:32:52 pm >>>

Hi Wayne,

Thanks a lot for the tips. I did have a try:
1. If the file system is ext2 for the large IO operation,
   then your work around works;
2. If the file system is ext3, then it hangs again.

I'm wondering if this is ext3 problem or the parameter you
mentioned must be adjusted for ext3?





Thx & Rgds,


schyu








                                                                       
                                         
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I had a similar problem and did a google search on it a while back.  I
found this little snippet and
tried it and have never had a problem since :

In your rc.d/rc.local file append the following two lines :


echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/inactive_clean_percent
echo 2 10 20  > /proc/sys/vm/pagecache


I would give this a try.

Wayner


>>> csu4 at fedex.com 04/10/2004 1:46:04 am >>>
Hi there,

Could anyone help to find the system hung problem? The box
is running RHEL 3AS Update3. Whenever I do a massive data
transfer (such as rcp from another box to this box), after
certain time (around six to seven hours), this box would
hang up. I could see the top output even it's hung, and it
showed that the iowait is 99% and system contributed another
1% making the server moving nowhere.

The box connected to a HP MSA500 Smart Array Storage, thru
multipath (I enabled it following the user guide) connection.
The filesystem is ext3 format. Any problem here?





Thx & Rgds,


SCHYU







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