Hi.
I have a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in a vmware ESXi 4.0 host 4G Ram 4 virtaul cpus and with about 4 TB of disk space formatted with XFS . I'm seeing a lot of :
Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-4): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 129, tail_bytes = 20163072 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 129, GH bytes = 20162880 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 5, tail_bytes = 333417984 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 5, GH bytes = 333417792 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 5, tail_bytes = 333417984 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 5, GH bytes = 333417792
What would casue this ? A quick google , I found a post that indicated I should unmount and mount the file systems. I have live production data on this machine so I need to be careful. What is the best solution ?
Thanks
Greg
On 03/20/12 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin wrote:
I have a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in a vmware ESXi 4.0 host 4G Ram 4 virtaul cpus and with about 4 TB of disk space formatted with XFS . I'm seeing a lot of :
Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-4): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 129, tail_bytes = 20163072 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 129, GH bytes = 20162880 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 5, tail_bytes = 333417984 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 5, GH bytes = 333417792 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 5, tail_bytes = 333417984 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 5, GH bytes = 333417792
What would casue this ? A quick google , I found a post that indicated I should unmount and mount the file systems. I have live production data on this machine so I need to be careful. What is the best solution ?
what sort of physical disk storage is this vm using? I'm wondering if perhaps this storage is unreliable with regards to write commits, or write ordering.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 03/20/12 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin wrote:
I have a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in a vmware ESXi 4.0 host 4G Ram 4 virtaul cpus and with about 4 TB of disk space formatted with XFS . I'm seeing a lot of :
Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-4): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 129, tail_bytes = 20163072 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 129, GH bytes = 20162880 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 5, tail_bytes = 333417984 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 5, GH bytes = 333417792 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 5, tail_bytes = 333417984 Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: GH cycle = 5, GH bytes = 333417792
What would casue this ? A quick google , I found a post that indicated I should unmount and mount the file systems. I have live production data on this machine so I need to be careful. What is the best solution ?
what sort of physical disk storage is this vm using? I'm wondering if perhaps this storage is unreliable with regards to write commits, or write ordering.
-- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
Hi John
The ESX host is attache to an Infortrend iSCSI SAN with 2 RAID5 arrays , each array has 3 LUNs. The disk are 7200 SATA Seagate disks.The virtual machines run out off disks the reside on the LUNs..
I will have a look at the SAN and see if there are any errors.
Thanks