rsync between one nfs nas mountpoint to another nas mountpoint freezes
Issue
- Rsync has been initiated from one nas mountpoint to another nas mountpoint, it continues for a while and then freezes.
- In the meantime noticed CPU wait is almost 100% and the
rsync
process itself becomeszombie
.
# !while
while true; do date; ps auxf | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done
Wed Jun 1 13:41:32 NZST 2016
root 31090 0.0 0.0 100988 848 ? D 13:25 0:00 \_ df -k
root 30259 0.1 0.6 150956 26116 pts/0 D 13:21 0:01 | \_ rsync -avu --progress /nas1/ /nas2/
- Test environment - but this needs to be done on several production hosts without impacting the OS and normal function.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7
- Network Filesystem
- Netapp
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