Hi I am running REDHAT AS 4, file system is ext3

I am trying to copy (I have tied rsync, cop) a 17GB from from /volume1 to volume2, problem is this gets stuck after transferring 4.7GB of data

I dont see any IO errors in message log either or when I do fsck it says the file systems is clean

What could be causing this and top and iostat outputs are follows. when this the copy command (rsync, cp) is unresponsive top shows hi "wa" but iostat is not showing much disk activities as well


TOP

top - 08:24:24 up 20 min, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.24, 0.34
Tasks: 109 total, 1 running, 108 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.1% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 16632020k total, 9943176k used, 6688844k free, 42240k buffers
Swap: 8192992k total, 0k used, 8192992k free, 9570480k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3854 root 16 0 10400 6788 1296 S 0 0.0 0:00.68 hald
1 root 16 0 1716 552 472 S 0 0.0 0:00.91 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2
7 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/2
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/3
9 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/3
10 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
11 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1
12 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/2
13 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 events/3
14 root 8 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
15 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
72 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0


iostat 5

avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
0.05 0.00 0.05 0.00 99.90

Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
cciss/c0d0 0.80 0.00 32.06 0 160
cciss/c0d0p1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p3 3.01 0.00 24.05 0 120
cciss/c0d0p5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p7 1.00 0.00 8.02 0 40
cciss/c0d0p8 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p9 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p11 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p13 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d0p14 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d1 0.40 0.00 4.81 0 24
cciss/c0d1p1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
cciss/c0d1p2 0.60 0.00 4.81 0 24
dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0



Thanks and regards

Can you please post the output of mount here?


Cheers,
Tink

Hi Tink thanks for the reply

[root@desknow asanka]# mount
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p13 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p8 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 on /vol1 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p14 on /vol2 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/mapper/VG001-LV001 on /vol3 type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d1p2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 on /vol0 type ext3 (rw)

I am trying to copy from vol0 to /mnt

df and or du on /mnt

Hi Guys looked liked it was an filesystem error, once I reformat the disk this is no more

Thanks and Best Regards

I'd just like to add that RHEL4 went out of regular support earlier this year.
Unless you pay extra for extended support, you should replace with RHEL5 or RHEL6.
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

Hi Chrism01, thanks for the infor
]Best REgards