<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>you either need to request access to GPFS 4.2.1.0 efix16<span class="inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space"> via your PMR or need to upgrade to 4.2.2.1 both contain the fixes required. </span></div><div><br></div><div>Sven</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:27 AM Sven Oehme <<a href="mailto:oehmes@gmail.com">oehmes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Aaron, <div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">hold a bit with the upgrade , i just got word that while 4.2.1+ most likely addresses the issues i mentioned, there was a defect in the initial release of the parallel log recovery code. i will get the exact minimum version you need to deploy and send another update to this thread. </div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">sven</div></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:03 AM Sven Oehme <<a href="mailto:oehmes@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">oehmes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Then i would suggest to move up to at least 4.2.1.LATEST , there is a high chance your problem might already be fixed. <div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">i see 2 potential area that got significant improvements , Token Manager recovery and Log Recovery, both are in latest 4.2.1 code enabled : </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">2 significant improvements on Token Recovery in 4.2.1 : </div><div class="gmail_msg">
<p class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-p1 gmail_msg"><span class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space gmail_msg"> </span>1. Extendible hashing for token hash table.<span class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space gmail_msg"> This</span> speeds up token lookup and thereby reduce tcMutex hold times for configurations with a large ratio of clients to token servers.<br class="gmail_msg">
<span class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space gmail_msg"> </span>2. Cleaning up tokens held by failed nodes was making multiple passes over the whole token table, one for each failed node.<span class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-Apple-converted-space gmail_msg"> </span>The loops are now inverted, so it makes a single pass over the able, and for each token found, does cleanup for all failed nodes.<br class="gmail_msg">
</p><p class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-p1 gmail_msg">there are multiple smaller enhancements beyond 4.2.1 but thats the minimum level you want to be. i have seen token recovery of 10's of minutes similar to what you described going down to a minute with this change. </p><p class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-p1 gmail_msg">on Log Recovery - in case of an unclean unmount/shutdown of a node prior 4.2.1 the Filesystem manager would only recover one Log file at a time, using a single thread, with 4.2.1 this is now done with multiple threads and multiple log files in parallel . </p></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="m_-950111664582246642m_-4981009086590633322inbox-inbox-p1 gmail_msg">Sven</p></div></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:22 AM Aaron Knister <<a href="mailto:aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It's at 4.1.1.10.<br class="gmail_msg">
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On 1/22/17 11:12 PM, Sven Oehme wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> What version of Scale/ GPFS code is this cluster on ?<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Inactive hide details for Aaron Knister ---01/23/2017 01:31:29 AM---I<br class="gmail_msg">
> was afraid someone would ask :) One possible use would beAaron Knister<br class="gmail_msg">
> ---01/23/2017 01:31:29 AM---I was afraid someone would ask :) One<br class="gmail_msg">
> possible use would be testing how monitoring reacts to and/or<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I was afraid someone would ask :)<br class="gmail_msg">
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> One possible use would be testing how monitoring reacts to and/or<br class="gmail_msg">
> corrects stale filesystems.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> The use in my case is there's an issue we see quite often where a<br class="gmail_msg">
> filesystem won't unmount when trying to shut down gpfs. Linux insists<br class="gmail_msg">
> its still busy despite every process being killed on the node just about<br class="gmail_msg">
> except init. It's a real pain because it complicates maintenance,<br class="gmail_msg">
> requiring a reboot of some nodes prior to patching for example.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> I dug into it and it appears as though when this happens the<br class="gmail_msg">
> filesystem's mnt_count is ridiculously high (300,000+ in one case). I'm<br class="gmail_msg">
> trying to debug it further but I need to actually be able to make the<br class="gmail_msg">
> condition happen a few more times to debug it. A stripegroup panic isn't<br class="gmail_msg">
> a surefire way but it's the only way I've found so far to trigger this<br class="gmail_msg">
> behavior somewhat on demand.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> One way I've found to trigger a mass stripegroup panic is to induce what<br class="gmail_msg">
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> loremds07: Sun Jan 22 00:30:03.367 2017: [X] File System ttest unmounted<br class="gmail_msg">
> by the system with return code 301 reason code 0<br class="gmail_msg">
> loremds07: Sun Jan 22 00:30:03.368 2017: Invalid argument<br class="gmail_msg">
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> and tickle a known race condition between nodes being expelled from the<br class="gmail_msg">
> cluster and a manager node joining the cluster. When this happens it<br class="gmail_msg">
> seems to cause a mass stripe group panic that's over in a few minutes.<br class="gmail_msg">
> The trick there is that it doesn't happen every time I go through the<br class="gmail_msg">
> exercise and when it does there's no guarantee the filesystem that<br class="gmail_msg">
> panics is the one in use. If it's not an fs in use then it doesn't help<br class="gmail_msg">
> me reproduce the error condition. I was trying to use the "mmfsadm test<br class="gmail_msg">
> panic" command to try a more direct approach.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Hope that helps shed some light.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> -Aaron<br class="gmail_msg">
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> On 1/22/17 8:16 PM, Andrew Beattie wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> Out of curiosity -- why would you want to?<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> This is going to sound like a ridiculous request, but, is there a way to<br class="gmail_msg">
>> cause a filesystem to panic everywhere in one "swell foop"? I'm assuming<br class="gmail_msg">
>> the answer will come with an appropriate disclaimer of "don't ever do<br class="gmail_msg">
>> this, we don't support it, it might eat your data, summon cthulu, etc.".<br class="gmail_msg">
>> I swear I've seen the fs manager initiate this type of operation before.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> I can seem to do it on a per-node basis with "mmfsadm test panic <fs><br class="gmail_msg">
>> <error code>" but if I do that over all 1k nodes in my test cluster at<br class="gmail_msg">
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