hammer does cache_lock

[Damian Lubosch]

Damian Lubosch schrieb:
> Hello!
>
> I am using Hammer since it came out in the 2.0 release in a "prepare for
> production" system.
> I have a setup with the postfix mailserver, dovecot and dspam. The
> user's mail-directories /home/mail/* are on my hammer-home-partition
> (/home size ~ 150GB) At the moment about 70GB are used.
>
> I prepared the subdirectory for the mail service using the master-slave pfs.
>
> #hammer pfs-status /home/mail  gives:
> /home/mail      PFS #3 {
>     sync-beg-tid=0x0000000000000001
>     sync-end-tid=0x000000034a1bea60
>     shared-uuid=9c8aed31-59b9-11dd-abcc-0102b31f83bf
>     unique-uuid=9c8aed7c-59b9-11dd-abcc-0102b31f83bf
>     label=""
>     operating as a MASTER
> }
>
> the home itself reports:
> hammer pfs-status /home
> /home   PFS #0 {
>     sync-beg-tid=0x0000000000000000
>     sync-end-tid=0x000000034a1bea60
>     shared-uuid=dcc842aa-59b6-11dd-abcc-0102b31f83bf
>     unique-uuid=dcc842aa-59b6-11dd-abcc-0102b31f83bf
>     label="home"
>     operating as a MASTER
> }
>
> (there is also a webroot in /home with PFS#1)
>
> Ok, the problem is now, that (for the second  time) some files are
> blocked, I get following messages in my logs:
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7cce058 "dovecot.index.log"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7cce058 "dovecot.index.log"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7cce058 "dovecot.index.log"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7cce058 "dovecot.index.log"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7cce058 "dovecot.index.log"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7b9d3c8 "group"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7b9d3c8 "group"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7cce058 "dovecot.index.log"
> [diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xd7cce058 "dovecot.index.log"
>
> The email-account containing this file isn't usable anymore when this
> file is locked. When I try to access e.g. the group file (from dspam) my
> console freezes.
>
> I prepared the /home/mail dir to be in master-slave-mode to be able
> later to synchronize the emails in realtime with an upcoming backup
> server. Is this setup undoable to a "normal" hammer directory?
>
> Is it possible to release the lock? What could cause it? I think the
> dovecot.index.log-file is appended quite often with every incoming email.
>
> I let do the cronjob "15 2 * * * /sbin/hammer -c /var/run/home -t 300
> reblock /home >/dev/null 2>&1" every night.
>
> I rebuilt the (release)dfly kernel on September 3rd, as I read that
> Matthew commited some bugfixes to the official release a few weeks ago.
>
> So far only a reboot helped to release the lock.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Damian
>
>   

Addition:
The reboot solved the problem for now but it kernel-panicked with
following message:

Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system thread syncer to stop...stopped
syncing disks... 932 932 932 932 932 932 932 932 932 932 932 932 932 932
932 932 932 932
giving up on 1 buffers
Debugger("busy buffer problem")
Stopped at Debugger+0x34: movb $0,in_Debugger.3949
db>


So I did send reset to the debugger.

Damian

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