What data do I gather if processes accessing GFS1 are hung on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?
Issue
- Processes accessing GFS are hung in state
D(uninteruptable sleep) - Processes accessing GFS are throwing blocked for more than 120 seconds call traces in the messages logs with GFS calls on the stack
- For RHEL 4 please see the procedure documented here and for the procedure for
GFS2then see this article.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the Resilient Storage Add On)
- Global File System (GFS)
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