On 2013-Mar-04 16:48:18 -0600, Karl Denninger <k...@denninger.net> wrote: >The subject machine in question has 12GB of RAM and dual Xeon >5500-series processors. It also has an ARECA 1680ix in it with 2GB of >local cache and the BBU for it. The ZFS spindles are all exported as >JBOD drives. I set up four disks under GPT, have a single freebsd-zfs >partition added to them, are labeled and the providers are then >geli-encrypted and added to the pool.
What sort of disks? SAS or SATA? >also known good. I began to get EXTENDED stalls with zero I/O going on, >some lasting for 30 seconds or so. The system was not frozen but >anything that touched I/O would lock until it cleared. Dedup is off, >incidentally. When the system has stalled: - Do you see very low free memory? - What happens to all the different CPU utilisation figures? Do they all go to zero? Do you get high system or interrupt CPU (including going to 1 core's worth)? - What happens to interrupt load? Do you see any disk controller interrupts? Would you be able to build a kernel with WITNESS (and WITNESS_SKIPSPIN) and see if you get any errors when stalls happen. On 2013-Mar-05 14:09:36 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick <j...@koitsu.org> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:09:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> Completely unrelated to the main thread: >> >> on 05/03/2013 07:32 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: >> > That said, I still do not recommend ZFS for a root filesystem >> Why? >Too long a history of problems with it and weird edge cases (keep >reading); the last thing an administrator wants to deal with is a system >where the root filesystem won't mount/can't be used. It makes >recovery or problem-solving (i.e. the server is not physically accessible >given geographic distances) very difficult. I've had lots of problems with a gmirrored UFS root as well. The biggest issue is that gmirror has no audit functionality so you can't verify that both sides of a mirror really do have the same data. >My point/opinion: UFS for a root filesystem is guaranteed to work >without any fiddling about and, barring drive failures or controller >issues, is (again, my opinion) a lot more risk-free than ZFS-on-root. AFAIK, you can't boot from anything other than a single disk (ie no graid). -- Peter Jeremy
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