[CentOS] xfsaild causing load, and stuck in D state - Centos 6.4 x64

[Svavar Örn Eysteinsson]

Thank you James.
I installed the latest centosplus kernel, and it fixed it.

Looks like this problem will be fixed in kernel-2.6.32-358.5.1.el6

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921958

Thanks allot.

Svavar


On 12.4.2013, at 11:05, James Pearson wrote:

> Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
>> PowerEdge 2850 with PERC SCSI RAID controller.
>> 16GB RAM
>> Dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
>> Using megaraid driver and xfs on 3x 300GB SCSI disks as /dev/sdb (total 572GB)  (RAID-5)
>> 
>> Stock Centos 6.4 x64, everything updated.
>> Kernel : 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
>> 
>> My Load always shows :
>> 
>> top - 10:30:21 up 23:09,  1 users,  load average: 0.99, 0.96, 0.79
>> 
>> yet there is no services what-so-ever doing anything.
>> 
>> Using PowerTOP I can see that xfsaild is causing second most wake-ups (after kernel core : hrtimer_start (tick_sched_timer) )
> 
> Have a look at the thread starting at:
> 
> <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-March/132931.html>
> 
> There is a fix in the latest centosplus kernel
> 
> James Pearson
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