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Re: volinfo hangs.

 
Christof Schoeman
Frequent Advisor

volinfo hangs.

Hi

volevac hangs on one of our production servers. Tracing the commands, we found that it is volinfo that causes the hangs. Running volinfo on its own also hangs.

We managed to reproduce the problem on a test system. It seems that volinfo hangs the moment you have more than 512 volumes in a group.

Has anyone seen this before, or know of a workaround?

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Venkatesh BL
Honored Contributor

Re: volinfo hangs.

What is the OS/patch version?

If interested, you could see where exactly the command is hanging by using 'dbx'.
Christof Schoeman
Frequent Advisor

Re: volinfo hangs.

The problem occurs on systems running V5.1B without patches, with PK4 and with PK5.

I am indeed interested in looking at the process using dbx.

Ran a truss on the volinfo and the vold processes. Here are the last few lines of each:

volinfo
-------
...
32331: write(3, " N E F V\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
32331: sigaction(SIGPIPE, 0x000000011FFFBD90, 0x00000000) = 0
32331: read(3, "1CB004\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
32331: read(3, " T S C V\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
32331: read(3, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 4
32331: read(3, "C7\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
32331: read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0".., 307200) = 81912
32331: read(3, " e n\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0".., 225288) = 81920
32331: read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0".., 143368) = 4112
32331: read(3, 0x000000014008B888, 139256) (sleeping...)


vold
----
...
73: munmap(0x0005E000, 8192) = 0
73: munmap(0x00060000, 8192) = 0
73: munmap(0x00062000, 8192) = 0
73: munmap(0x00064000, 8192) = 0
73: write(10, " N E F V\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8
73: gettimeofday64(0x000000011FFFBC98, 0x00000000) = 0
73: gettimeofday64(0x000000011FFFBC98, 0x00000000) = 0
73: sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, 0x00000000, 0x00000001400609C0) = 0
73: sigstack(0x00000000, 0x000000011FFFBC88) = 0
Venkatesh BL
Honored Contributor

Re: volinfo hangs.

On my machine, I see a "fork" call in volinfo and a "poll" call in vold...hmm...

Are you able to execute 'volprint'?

May be you could try 'voldctl disable' and then 'voldctl enable' to see if fixes the problems...but, read the manpage before proceeeding.
Stephen Wright_2
Occasional Advisor

Re: volinfo hangs.

Hi

voldctl disable/enable did not make a difference.

As for the fork you see in the truss output, I would assume your volinfo works and not not hang.

We created the 513 volumes with:
volassist make dsk0001 2M
on a test system and are able to reproduce the problem. If we delete a disk e.g
volume stop dsk0513
voledit -rf rm dsk0513
then volinfo works again.
Venkatesh BL
Honored Contributor

Re: volinfo hangs.

sounds like a bug to me. May be you should file a report with HP and get a resolution on this.
Stephen Wright_2
Occasional Advisor

Re: volinfo hangs.

Thank you

We have escalated to HP (some weeks now) and got a call ref no 1208733405.

Subsequent to escalating the call, we did our own tests and determined a volume limit of 512 per group if you want volinfo to work. Volprint works even if there are >900 volumes per group.