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тАО05-10-2007 02:46 AM
тАО05-10-2007 02:46 AM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
Thanks
Kevin
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тАО05-10-2007 06:49 PM
тАО05-10-2007 06:49 PM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
when trying to reproduce the IO hang, consider to start some of the OpenVMS 'built-in' SDA extensions to capture some more detailled data.
You can get some help and examples of using them at:
http://eisner.encompasserve.org/~halle/
The following extensions may be useful:
$ ANAL/SYS
SDA> DKLOG
SDA> IO
SDA> FC
Volker.
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тАО05-13-2007 10:00 PM
тАО05-13-2007 10:00 PM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
I did a test on a 4100 with HSZ70 running 7.3 and found that
1) splitting a shadow set froze IO for 0.2 seconds
2) reforming a shadow set froze IO for 2 seconds
3) upon shadow copy completion (with bitmaps, didn't check it in the test without them), IO's were blocked for 0.3 sec, 0.6 sec and 0.51 sec (3 times a lock was taken ?)
With/without bitmap had no big influence. During the shadow copy some IO's took 0.07 sec instead of 0.01.
Fwiw
Wim
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тАО05-13-2007 11:35 PM
тАО05-13-2007 11:35 PM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
1) dism 2.5 sec
2) mount 1.9 sec
3) on completion copy 8.9 + 0.6 + 1.9 sec
Wim
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тАО05-13-2007 11:37 PM
тАО05-13-2007 11:37 PM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
A looping DCL script wrote time stamps to a flat file. The time stamps were written at a rate of 55 per 1/100th of a second or 55*100 per second.
During the EMC config several IO stalls took place that ranged from .03 seconds to a massive 1.8 seconds.
Now need to run further test.
This was the first pass.
Regards
Kevin
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тАО05-14-2007 05:48 AM
тАО05-14-2007 05:48 AM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
>During the EMC config several IO stalls took
>place that ranged from .03 seconds to a
>massive 1.8 seconds.
I'll bet you are adding storage and pushing
out zoning changes (RCSNs are the gotchas).
You will want to avoid storage changes and
particularly zoning changes during normal
working hours.
In a previous job I heard about how they
used to merrily make storage and zoning changes
during working hours. Guess what? Real-time
instrument acquisitions don't like long
pauses - do they?
So, painfully all that worked was moved to
off hours - (2 a.m. on weekends).
Welcome to the real-world Neo...
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тАО05-14-2007 12:34 PM
тАО05-14-2007 12:34 PM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
Kevin,
Another thought ... I realize you probably
aren't zoning on this EMC config. But what
may be happening is when a new hyper/meta is
created and presented it may require the
Symm to momentarily place a global lock
on the cache (or section of cache) to set
aside cache lines for the newly created
hyper/meta. With multiple gigabytes of cache
it may take a while to take the lock out,
do the work and release (>1 second being
a "while").
I have a lot of "may" above - I don't know.
The problem is there is a good deal of
unknowns (to me) about how the Symm cache
works, and I have been digging for a long
time so it might just be a closely held
piece of engineering knowledge (or I haven't
stumbled upon the right person - yet).
You're going to have to open a call with EMC
support and describe your problem, perhaps
they can shed some light.
Commenting on the hang you are experiencing..
it really isn't that great but in a real-time
data acquisition scenario it could well
be unacceptable. My comment about storage
and zoning changes moving to off hours was
based on my personal history with EMC Symms.
Rob
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тАО05-14-2007 06:34 PM
тАО05-14-2007 06:34 PM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
3) on completion copy 8.9 + 0.6 + 1.9 sec
must be
3) on completion copy 0.9 + 0.6 + 1.9 sec
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тАО05-14-2007 09:31 PM
тАО05-14-2007 09:31 PM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
However, the change we did make was to the SCSI3 bit on 3 devices. This array would still go through the same process to prepare and commit the change therefore forcing an IML of the directors. It is at this point where we are seeing a delay. It's normal for the array to behave in this fashion and at this stage it looks like any config change we make is going to effect your servers..............
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тАО05-15-2007 02:48 AM
тАО05-15-2007 02:48 AM
Re: Disk IO retry - OpenVMS 7.3-2
> SCSCI 3 bit set, IML the directors
Well you can close the loop on this one.
Curiously, why would 4 drives out of dozens
not have that bit set?
When they went to change control and had
approval for doing this work did they inform
change control that the directors on the Symm
would be rebooting? etc.