Why is my GFS2 filesystem performance slow when doing a `rm -rf *` operation?
Issue
- Why is my GFS2 filesystem performance slow when doing a
rm -rf *operation? -
Why do I see memory allocation errors in
/var/log/messageslike the following below?Jul 24 14:42:24 node42 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jul 24 14:42:24 node42 kernel: WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:1970 get_page_from_freelist+0x9a8/0x9f0()
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- A Global Filesystem 2(
GFS2)
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