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--></style></head><body lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple">I see two separate bugs there.<br>
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1. A missing package requirement<br>
2. The process hanging in a reproducible way.<br>
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Could you please file these bugs in bugzilla?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 26, 2014 6:11:50 AM PDT, Steve Thomas <sthomas@rpstechnologysolutions.co.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi All,<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’ve got to the bottom of it…. By running glusterd in foreground with debug enabled I was able to see two error messages when the command was being run… it appears that it was requiring the xfsprogs package which I did not have installed. Once I installed it it appears that zombie processes are no longer being “created”.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers,<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Steve<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Carlos Capriotti [mailto:capriotti.carlos@gmail.com] <br
/><b>Sent:</b> 25 March 2014 12:30<br /><b>To:</b> Steve Thomas<br /><b>Cc:</b> gluster-users@gluster.org<br /><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.4.2 on Redhat 6.5<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Steve:</p><p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Tested that myself - not the nagios part, but the gluster commands you posted later - and no errors or zombies.</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Somebody else reported the same, so, sounds consistent.</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">There must be another process there biting your gluster, turning it into a haunted scenario.</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p></div><div><p
class="MsoNormal">Carlos</p><p></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"></p><p> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Steve Thomas <<a href="mailto:sthomas@rpstechnologysolutions.co.uk" target="_blank">sthomas@rpstechnologysolutions.co.uk</a>> wrote:</p><p></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi,<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I’m running Gluster 3.4.2 on Redhat 6.5 with 4 servers with a brick on each. This brick is mounted locally and used by apache to server audio files for an IVR system. Each of these audio files are typically around
80-100Kb.<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">System appears to be working ok in terms of health and status via gluster CLI. <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The system is monitored by nagios and there’s a check for zombie processes and the gluster status. It appears that over a 24 hour period the number of Zombie processes on the box has increased and is continually increasing. Investigating these are “glusterd” processes.<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I’m
making an assumption but I’d suspect that the regular nagios checks are resulting in the increase in zombie processes as they are querying the glusterd process. The command that the nagios plugin is running is:<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">#Check heal status<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">gluster volume heal audio info<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">#Check volume status<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">gluster volume status audio detail<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Does anyone have any suggestions as to why glusterd is resulting in these zombie processes?<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks for help in advance,<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888"> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888">Steve<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888"> <p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#888888"> <p></p></span></p></div></div><p
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