Today we have experienced the same IO freeze issue with climbing load that was reported many times last year in these threads:
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/14309-CRITICAL-Huge-IO-load-causes-freezing-during-backups
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/14284-Nightly-backup-hang-(by-IO)-whole-system
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/9097-vzdump-using-lvm-snapshot-kills-the-box
The difference is that today it appeared not during nightly backups, but during low traffic daytime. The only change compared to previous day is that we migrated one OpenVZ VE with tens of thousands of small files to another node where there already is a heavy MySQL server (also OpenVZ). This is the same VE that induced this issue last year.
The system specs:
- Q77 motherboard, Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM
- Adaptec 6805E controller, all PVE partitions on RAID10
- ext4 filesystem
We were running 2.6.32-27-pve kernel at that time.
htop during freeze:
console during freeze:
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/14309-CRITICAL-Huge-IO-load-causes-freezing-during-backups
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/14284-Nightly-backup-hang-(by-IO)-whole-system
http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/9097-vzdump-using-lvm-snapshot-kills-the-box
The difference is that today it appeared not during nightly backups, but during low traffic daytime. The only change compared to previous day is that we migrated one OpenVZ VE with tens of thousands of small files to another node where there already is a heavy MySQL server (also OpenVZ). This is the same VE that induced this issue last year.
The system specs:
- Q77 motherboard, Intel Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM
- Adaptec 6805E controller, all PVE partitions on RAID10
- ext4 filesystem
We were running 2.6.32-27-pve kernel at that time.
htop during freeze:
console during freeze:
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