I was having a look at a small office setup with an Xserve (10.5) used primarily as a file server. Customer had complained that they're intermittently having issues with the shares being sluggish - couldn't replicate anything at first but after a little while I could see files and folders taking a few seconds to populate and a little beachballing (customer said it gets worse, reboot of Xserve helps for a while - day or two).
Checked all the Xserve drives (also a couple of iMacs just in case), and didn't find any issues in Disk Utility. Xserve only has 2GB of RAM but seemingly this only started happening in the last 3 weeks or so. Checked Console on one of the iMacs while accessing shares but didn't see anything obvious in the logs - likewise nothing jumped out at me in the Xserve logs, but would someone mind having a quick look to see if I've missed something?
It's not a massive issue for them (they were mainly wanting to check if there was anything about to fail imminently), but I wanted to see if there was any obvious cause, other than plain age, or a disk starting to decline in performance.
Any other details I've missed, let me know. Any help appreciated.
I've included about 40 mins worth of system.log that covers the time period that we managed to replicate some slowness:
Checked all the Xserve drives (also a couple of iMacs just in case), and didn't find any issues in Disk Utility. Xserve only has 2GB of RAM but seemingly this only started happening in the last 3 weeks or so. Checked Console on one of the iMacs while accessing shares but didn't see anything obvious in the logs - likewise nothing jumped out at me in the Xserve logs, but would someone mind having a quick look to see if I've missed something?
It's not a massive issue for them (they were mainly wanting to check if there was anything about to fail imminently), but I wanted to see if there was any obvious cause, other than plain age, or a disk starting to decline in performance.
Any other details I've missed, let me know. Any help appreciated.
I've included about 40 mins worth of system.log that covers the time period that we managed to replicate some slowness:
Code:
Sep 1 11:42:11 Examiner-Server com.apple.launchd[228] ([0x0-0x14014].QLAServer[260]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 272 PPID 1 java
Sep 1 11:45:51 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 11:46:21: --- last message repeated 11 times ---
Sep 1 11:46:25 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 11:46:55: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 1 11:49:07 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 11:49:37: --- last message repeated 49 times ---
Sep 1 11:49:40 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 11:50:10: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Sep 1 11:50:12 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 11:50:42: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Sep 1 11:53:03 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 11:53:33: --- last message repeated 15 times ---
Sep 1 11:59:33 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 12:00:03: --- last message repeated 7 times ---
Sep 1 12:02:29 Examiner-Server mDNSResponder[29]: ERROR: getOptRdata - unknown opt 4
Sep 1 12:02:59: --- last message repeated 7 times ---
Sep 1 12:07:38 Examiner-Server com.apple.AppleFileServer[178]: MDSChannelPeerRequest: (ipc/rcv) timed out
Sep 1 12:09:21 Examiner-Server DashboardClient[449]: com.apple.widget.ServerStatus: Connecting to server...
Sep 1 12:09:21 Examiner-Server [0x0-0xb00b].com.apple.dock[245]: 2014-09-01 12:09:21.316 DashboardClient[449:10b] com.apple.widget.ServerStatus: Connecting to server...
Sep 1 12:09:34 Examiner-Server SyncServer[505]: SyncServer: Reaping records for inactive clients. Next reap on 2014-10-16 12:09:34 +0100
Sep 1 12:09:34 Examiner-Server SyncServer[505]: Resetting sync client com.apple.Dashboard since it has not synced since 2014-06-03 12:09:34 +0100
Sep 1 12:10:39 Examiner-Server DashboardClient[449]: com.apple.widget.ServerStatus: Authentication failed: 0
Sep 1 12:10:39 Examiner-Server [0x0-0xb00b].com.apple.dock[245]: 2014-09-01 12:10:39.328 DashboardClient[449:10b] com.apple.widget.ServerStatus: Authentication failed: 0
Sep 1 12:20:50 Examiner-Server fseventsd[61]: event logs in /Volumes/Store1/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (0 2866 2910)
Sep 1 12:20:50 Examiner-Server /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[590]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Sep 1 12:20:50 Examiner-Server /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[590]: Starting standard backup
Sep 1 12:20:50 Examiner-Server /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[590]: Backing up to: /Volumes/ServerBackup/Backups.backupdb
Sep 1 12:21:04 Examiner-Server fseventsd[61]: log dir: /Volumes/Store1/.fseventsd getting new uuid: F8F7D9EF-9A6D-4ACD-AD48-7DAC83681EDB
Sep 1 12:21:04 Examiner-Server fseventsd[61]: event logs in /Volumes/Store2/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (1 2880 2924)
Sep 1 12:21:19 Examiner-Server fseventsd[61]: log dir: /Volumes/Store2/.fseventsd getting new uuid: F600BABF-3A43-4706-95C6-AEB4A2E7C9C0
Sep 1 12:21:19 Examiner-Server fseventsd[61]: event logs in /Volumes/ServerBackup/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (1 2895 2939)
Sep 1 12:21:24 Examiner-Server fseventsd[61]: log dir: /Volumes/ServerBackup/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 43DFBCDA-E0E0-4FD1-AC9C-72C0868CF3BB
Sep 1 12:21:30 Examiner-Server /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[590]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 243.7 MB requested (including padding), 1.22 TB available
