Using bcache for / leads to hung processes
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Medium
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Bug Description
I've used maas 1.9.1 to setup a bcache partition mount as /. The bcache is made of a 400GB SSD backed by sda-part2. The sda drive is a 1TB disk with 1GB carved out for /boot (sda-part1) and the rest given to sda-part2. I believe the bcache mode is set to write-through.
Within an hour of this machine being deployed (it's being used as a node in a landscape autopilot openstack deployment) it starts showing hung processes. The output of 'ps faxw' (attached as 'amco-process-
This is reproducible.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-85-generic x86_64
AlsaDevices:
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 May 6 03:07 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 May 6 03:07 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay'
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord'
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Date: Fri May 6 14:24:20 2016
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
MachineType: HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8
PciMultimedia:
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB:
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-
linux-firmware 1.127.22
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/02/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: HP
dmi.bios.version: P73
dmi.chassis.type: 23
dmi.chassis.vendor: HP
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHP:
dmi.product.name: ProLiant DL360e Gen8
dmi.sys.vendor: HP
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