[sheepdog-users] sheepdog replication got stuck

[Liu Yuan]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:41:36PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> 
> Hi Gerald,
> 
> I have some questions about your situation for effective problem solving.
> 
> At Sat, 4 Jan 2014 20:20:04 +0100,
> Gerald Richter - ECOS wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have done further investigation on that issue.
> > 
> > As long as I import image by image, only one at a time everything works as expected, but when I try to import all images at the same time, either the replication to the other node gets stuck and the  and the import never finish or sheep gets an segmentation fault (see below).
> > 
> > Looks to me like some kind of raise condition in the thread handling.
> > 
> > Upgrade to 0.7.6 doesn't change anything
> > 
> > Sheep is running with the following options:
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/sheep --pidfile /var/run/sheep.pid -l 6 --nosync /var/lib/sheepdog/ /var/lib/sheepdog//disc1/data,/var/lib/sheepdog//disc2/data -w dir=/var/lib/sheepdog//cache size=100000
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Gerald
> > 
> > Crash from 0.7.5:
> > 
> > Jan 01 11:03:58  EMERG [gway 82801] crash_handler(250) sheep exits unexpectedly (Segmentation fault).
> > Jan 01 11:04:03  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(843) sheep.c:252: crash_handler
> > Jan 01 11:04:03  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(857) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0xf02f) [0x7f491ba3502f]
> > Jan 01 11:04:03  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(843) object_cache.c:643: find_object_cache
> > Jan 01 11:04:03  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(843) object_cache.c:1098: bypass_object_cache
> > Jan 01 11:04:04  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(843) gateway.c:39: gateway_read_obj
> > Jan 01 11:04:04  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(843) ops.c:1337: do_process_work
> > Jan 01 11:04:04  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(843) work.c:294: worker_routine
> > Jan 01 11:04:04  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(857) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x6b4f) [0x7f491ba2cb4f]
> > Jan 01 11:04:04  EMERG [gway 82801] sd_backtrace(857) /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x6c) [0x7f491b0e9a7c]
> > Jan 01 11:04:19  ERROR [main] crash_handler(490) sheep pid 81829 exited unexpectedly.
> > 
> 
> 1. Can you reproduce this problem without object cache?
> 2. How do you "import all images at the same time"? Executing qemu-img in parallel?
> 3. Can you check CPU usage of sheep daemon when its hangs?

Last mail Gerald mentioned he used an old qemu. I am wondering if the qemu the
culprit.

Thanks
Yuan