Re: PANIC bearerbox cvs-20090902

Yes, I've benchmarked ext3, ext2 and xfs and ext2 is by far the best  
performing filesystem for spool store.

At least on my experience, ext3 gets very sluggish on stores over 50K.  
Regarding xfs, despite being quite faster than ext3 in loading the  
store, increased the load on my system under heavy traffic.

IMHO, ext2 is the way to go. However, if you're sustaining heavy  
traffic the spool store stresses the filesystem a lot so I'd recommend  
you to use a dedicated ext2 partition for the store: you'd still use  
the more reliable ext3 for the OS while getting the speed of ext2  
where's needed. Furthermore, if the ext2 partition crashes you'd be  
able to unmount it and repair it without rebooting the box.

Regards,
--
Alejandro Guerrieri
[email protected]



On 11/09/2009, at 15:34, Dante Moreno wrote:

> Hi Nikos,
> I can't use spool store-type right now since kannel runs on ext3  
> filesystem. I remember reading that there were performance issues if  
> you have a large queue+spool+ext3. If I have no other choice, I can  
> partition the system and create an ext2 or xfs partition just for  
> the queue. However I want to do that as a last resource solution(and  
> hope that the problem really doesn't happen again).
> On the other hand, there are a couple of good free smpp smsc  
> simulators. SMPPSim(free and open source) or Logica's simulator for  
> example.
> Regards,
> Dante
>
> 2009/9/11 Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> I cannot find anything wrong with the code at that point. However,  
> it looks like memory corruption. Could you please use spool instead  
> of file? It is safer, more efficient and faster than file. In  
> addition it uses different memory structures than file and you  
> should get away with it.
>
> I will update and run valgrind on it over the weekend.  
> Unfortunately, I don't have smsc connections, but I hope I can catch  
> the problem with fake smsc. If not, someone else from the list will  
> have to look at it.
>
> BR,
> Nikos
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nikos Balkanas
> To: Dante Moreno
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:44 PM
> Subject: Re: PANIC bearerbox cvs-20090902
>
> Hi,
>
> How can you say they are the same? Even the the problem is different  
> this time.
>
> Anyway I 'll have to look at it.
>
> BR,
> Nikos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dante Moreno
> To: Nikos Balkanas
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: PANIC bearerbox cvs-20090902
>
> Hi Nikos,
> Thanks for answering. First of all, i'm using the file store-type  
> option and there is plenty of free disk space.
> I'm using the latest CVS(cvs-20090902). Here are the logs+addr2line  
> output:
>
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: gwlib/octstr.c:2484:  
> seems_valid_real: Assertion `ostr != NULL' failed. (Called from  
> gwlib/octstr.c:874:octstr_compare.)
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(gw_panic+0x15b)  
> [0x4833db]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x483c59]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(octstr_compare 
> +0x20) [0x488800]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x477292]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(gwlist_search 
> +0x54) [0x4811d4]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(dict_get+0x35)  
> [0x4772d5]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x4175f0]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x4177ef]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x417df5]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x47a2f5]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: /lib64/libpthread.so.0  
> [0x3781e06307]
> 2009-09-10 09:10:40 [27966] [18] PANIC: /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)  
> [0x37812d1ded]
>
> and here the addr2line output:
>
> addr2line -e /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bearerbox 0x4833db  
> 0x483c59 0x488800 0x477292 0x4811d4 0x4772d5 0x4175f0 0x4177ef  
> 0x417df5 0x47a2f5 0x3781e06307 0x37812d1ded
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/log.c:541
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/octstr.c:2483
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/octstr.c:875
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/dict.c:103
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/list.c:472
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/dict.c:298
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bb_store_file.c:196
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bb_store_file.c:571
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bb_store_file.c:236
> /gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/gwthread-pthread.c:135
> ??:0
> ??:0
>
> The line numbers seem to be the same as before.
> Regards,
> Dante
>
>
> 2009/9/10 Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
>
> No, this is the right place for debugger info.
>
> First make sure that your partition is not getting full and kannel  
> has space to write the Q.
> Seems you are using spool type for Q storage and it runs out of  
> unique hash strings. But I cannot be sure, since your addr2line  
> output is from an older CVS and reports wrong line numbers.
>
> Please update to latest CVS and repost.
>
> BR,
> Nikos
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dante Moreno
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:20 PM
> Subject: Re: PANIC bearerbox cvs-20090902
>
> Maybe I should post this to the users list? We are now facing this  
> problem on a daily basis.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Regards,
> Dante
>
> 2009/9/8 Dante Moreno <[email protected]>
> Hi,
> We are using the latest CVS and have found this PANIC bugs. This has  
> happened to us 3 times in around two weeks. We are not able to  
> reproduce them....the only thing we know is that it seems to happen  
> when the store size is very large(100,000+ messages). We are using  
> the "file" store type. Below are the bug reports:
>
> The first one is:
>
> 2009-08-14 12:29:12 [4472] [15] DEBUG: boxc_receiver: sms received
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: gwlib/octstr.c:2505:  
> seems_valid_real: Assertion `ostr->data[ostr->len] == '\0'' failed.  
> (Called from gwlib/octstr.c:343:octstr_len.)
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox(gw_panic+0x15b)  
> [0x4830db]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox [0x4837a5]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox(octstr_len+0x1f)  
> [0x483aef]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox(octstr_hash_key 
> +0x2f) [0x483b8f]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox [0x476e8c]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox(dict_get+0x1c)  
> [0x476fbc]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox [0x4175b0]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox [0x4177af]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox [0x417db5]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: bearerbox [0x479ff5]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: /lib64/libpthread.so.0  
> [0x3781e06307]
> 2009-08-14 12:29:13 [4472] [14] PANIC: /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)  
> [0x37812d1ded]
>
>
> addr2line -e /gateway-1.4.3/gw/bearerbox 0x4830db 0x4837a5 0x483aef  
> 0x483b8f 0x476e8c 0x476fbc 0x4175b0 0x4177af 0x417db5 0x479ff5  
> 0x3781e06307 0x37812d1ded
> /gateway-1.4.3/gwlib/log.c:541
> /gateway-1.4.3/gwlib/octstr.c:2507
> /gateway-1.4.3/gwlib/octstr.c:344
> /gateway-1.4.3/gwlib/octstr.c:2468
> /gateway-1.4.3/gwlib/dict.c:139
> /gateway-1.4.3/gwlib/dict.c:294
> /gateway-1.4.3/gw/bb_store_file.c:196
> /gateway-1.4.3/gw/bb_store_file.c:571
> /gateway-1.4.3/gw/bb_store_file.c:236
> /gateway-1.4.3/gwlib/gwthread-pthread.c:135
> ??:0
> ??:0
>
> And the second one which happened today:
>
> 2009-09-08 09:56:01 [25766] [18] PANIC: gwlib/octstr.c:2484:  
> seems_valid_real: Assertion `ostr != NULL' failed. (Called from  
> gwlib/octstr.c:874:octstr_compare.)
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [21] DEBUG: boxc_receiver: sms received
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(gw_panic+0x15b)  
> [0x4833db]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x483c59]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(octstr_compare 
> +0x20) [0x488800]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x477292]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(gwlist_search 
> +0x54) [0x4811d4]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox(dict_get+0x35)  
> [0x4772d5]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x4175f0]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x4177ef]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x417df5]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: bearerbox [0x47a2f5]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: /lib64/libpthread.so.0  
> [0x3781e06307]
> 2009-09-08 09:56:02 [25766] [18] PANIC: /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)  
> [0x37812d1ded]
>
> addr2line -e gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bearerbox 0x4833db  
> 0x483c59 0x488800 0x477292 0x4811d4 0x4772d5 0x4175f0 0x4177ef  
> 0x417df5 0x47a2f5 0x3781e06307 0x37812d1ded
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/log.c:541
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/octstr.c:2483
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/octstr.c:875
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/dict.c:103
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/list.c:472
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/dict.c:298
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bb_store_file.c:196
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bb_store_file.c:571
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gw/bb_store_file.c:236
> gateway-1.4.3_cvs_20090902/gwlib/gwthread-pthread.c:135
> ??:0
> ??:0
>
> Also, for some strange reason, after the PANIC bearerbox restarts  
> itself(parachute) but smsbox doesn't.
> Could anybody please hint me in how to solve this issues?
>
> Regards,
> Dante
>
>
>