Bug 890095

Summary:	mount.ntfs consumes 100% CPU when running vmware player with vm located on it
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 13.1	Reporter:	Ivanov <damianatorrpm>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Greg Freemyer <Greg.Freemyer>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	bwiedemann, chcao, damianatorrpm
Version:	Final	Flags:	Greg.Freemyer: needinfo? (damianatorrpm)
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Description Ivanov 2014-08-02 22:54:33 UTC

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mount.ntfs consumes 100% CPU when running vmware player with vm located on it

Reproducible: Always




what logs can I provide you with?

Comment 1 Ivanov 2014-08-02 22:55:07 UTC

the vm located on the ntfs partition I mean

Comment 2 Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-08-12 06:49:30 UTC

So you have a host that has an NTFS partition mounted
and from that partition you use VMware disk files for a VM?

You could try diagnosis/debugging with
vmstat 1
iotop -P
strace -o LOGFILE -p `pidof mount.ntfs`

and attach longer logfiles that seem relevant to this bug

you could also try (instead of VMware) running
qemu-kvm -hda YOURDISK.vmdk -m 1000

and see if you get the same behaviour

Comment 3 Ivanov 2014-08-12 20:14:37 UTC

>So you have a host that has an NTFS partition mounted
>and from that partition you use VMware disk files for a VM?
Well yes, by accident. I was running low on my ssd on put the VM on some internal HDD and I started the VM, system unuasable, I managed with luck to get some result of top and killing vmware and unmounting.

At the moment I no longer have the VM on the ntfs partition, but I will set up one to provide the results of debugging with your provided commands.

Comment 4 Chenzi Cao 2014-12-31 08:22:58 UTC

Hi Damian, would you please help to provide the results of debugging with the commands mentioned in # Comment 2? Thanks!

Comment 5 Ivanov 2015-01-05 08:07:54 UTC

At the moment I don't have a NTFS partition there anymore.
I will try in few days when I buy a new external HDD which I intend to format with two partitions.

Comment 6 Chenzi Cao 2015-03-18 09:41:24 UTC

Hi there, would you please kindly help to have a look at here? I'm not quite sure whether it is right to assign it to you, please feel free to reassign whenever necessary, thank you!

Comment 7 Greg Freemyer 2015-06-02 14:27:38 UTC

Can the reporter try ntfs-3g_progs from the filesystems repo.  A new update just went in.

Comment 8 Greg Freemyer 2016-04-07 00:36:10 UTC

Another new release of ntfs-3g_progs just went into the filesystems repo.

Please test it.

If this is left unconfirmed for another couple weeks, I'll go ahead and close this.

Comment 9 Tomáš Chvátal 2018-04-12 13:39:53 UTC

This version of openSUSE changed to end-of-life (EOL [1]) status. As such
it is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any
further security or bug fix updates.
As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
openSUSE, or consider the bug still valid, please feel free to reopen this
bug against that version, or open a new ticket.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed
during the lifetime of the release.

[1] https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime