Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 07:13:57AM +0100, Tom Vijlbrief wrote: > 2011/1/9 Jeremy Chadwick : > > > > > Not to get off topic, but what is causing this?  It looks like you have > > a cron job or something very aggressive doing a "smartctl -t short > > /dev/ad4" or equivalent.  If you have such, pleas

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Tom Vijlbrief
2011/1/9 Jeremy Chadwick : > > Not to get off topic, but what is causing this?  It looks like you have > a cron job or something very aggressive doing a "smartctl -t short > /dev/ad4" or equivalent.  If you have such, please disable this > immediately.  You shouldn't be doing SMART tests with such

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Tom Vijlbrief
2011/1/9 Jeremy Chadwick : > > I'm sorry, I gave you incorrect advice; I'm used to Intel controllers > with AHCI, not Silicon Image controllers.  Silicon Image controllers > have their own driver: siis(4). > > Please change ahci_load="yes" to siis_load="yes". > Tried it, but no change, the siis d

Re: usb errors with 8 stable

2011-01-09 Thread Beach Geek
It's looking more like a hardware failure. I connected the phone to a friends HP Pavilion dv8xxx running FreeBSD 8 r217175 and it detected it & created da devices. I've upgraded to r217175 and still doesn't work. When I get back to lab, I'll test hardware and go from there. Thanks for the suggest

RE: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Forgeron
>> On 6 January 2011 22:26, Chris Forgeron wrote: >> > You know, these days I'm not as happy with SSD's for ZIL. I may blog about >> > some of the speed results I've been getting over the last 6mo-1yr that >> > I've been running them with ZFS. I think people should be using hardware >> > RAM dr

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:02:16PM +0100, Tom Vijlbrief wrote: > 2011/1/9 Jeremy Chadwick : > > > > > errno 6 is "device not configured".  ad4 is on a Silicon Image > > controller (thankfully a reliable model).  Sadly AHCI (ahci.ko) isn't in > > use here; I would advocate switching to it (your dev

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Tom Vijlbrief
2011/1/9 Jeremy Chadwick : > > errno 6 is "device not configured".  ad4 is on a Silicon Image > controller (thankfully a reliable model).  Sadly AHCI (ahci.ko) isn't in > use here; I would advocate switching to it (your device names will > change however) and see if these errors continue (they'll

Re: Re; NFS performance

2011-01-09 Thread Rick Macklem
> It has been suggested that I move this thread to freebsd-stable. The > thread so far (deficient NFS performance in FreeBSD 8): > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-January/034006.html > > I updated my kernel to FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE. This improved my > throughput, but st

Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-09 Thread Rick Macklem
> Daniel Braniss writes... > > > I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root > > but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and > > maybe > > others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. > > Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lo

Re; NFS performance

2011-01-09 Thread george+freebsd
It has been suggested that I move this thread to freebsd-stable. The thread so far (deficient NFS performance in FreeBSD 8): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-January/034006.html I updated my kernel to FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE. This improved my throughput, but still not to t

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 04:41:43PM +0100, Tom Vijlbrief wrote: > I've run many fscks on /usr in single user because I had soft update > inconsistencies, > no DMA errors during those repairs. There's no 1:1 ratio between running fsck on a filesystem and seeing a DMA error. I should explain what I

Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-09 Thread Daniel Feenberg
Daniel Braniss writes... I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and maybe others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lockd and so the lockin

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Tom Vijlbrief
I've run many fscks on /usr in single user because I had soft update inconsistencies, no DMA errors during those repairs. smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE i386] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 01:42:13PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > On 01/09/2011 01:18 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:49:27PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > >> On 01/09/2011 10:00 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: > >>>On 12/16/2010 01:44 PM, Martin Matuska wrote: > Hi everyone, > >>>

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Rich
Once upon a time, this was a known problem with the arcmsr driver not correctly interacting with ZFS, resulting in this behavior. Since I'm presuming that the arcmsr driver update which was intended to fix this behavior (in my case, at least) is in your nightly build, it's probably worth pinging t

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Attila Nagy
On 01/09/2011 01:18 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:49:27PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: On 01/09/2011 10:00 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: On 12/16/2010 01:44 PM, Martin Matuska wrote: Hi everyone, following the announcement of Pawel Jakub Dawidek (p...@freebsd.org) I am provid

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:33:10PM +0100, Tom Vijlbrief wrote: > The last half year I've been installing FreeBSD on several machines. > > I installed it on my main desktop system a few weeks ago which > normally runs Linux, but I get this panic under heavy disk I/O. > > It even happened during th

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:49:27PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > On 01/09/2011 10:00 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: > > On 12/16/2010 01:44 PM, Martin Matuska wrote: > >>Hi everyone, > >> > >>following the announcement of Pawel Jakub Dawidek (p...@freebsd.org) I am > >>providing a ZFSv28 testing patch for 8

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/01/2011 10:14, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > I assume you are familiar with these papers? > > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1317403 > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1670144 > > Short version: as hard disk sizes increase to 2 TB and beyond while the URE > rate > stays in the order of

Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Tom Vijlbrief
The last half year I've been installing FreeBSD on several machines. I installed it on my main desktop system a few weeks ago which normally runs Linux, but I get this panic under heavy disk I/O. It even happened during the initial sysinstall, allthough I also have completed several buildworlds w

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Attila Nagy
On 01/01/2011 08:09 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: What I see: - increased CPU load - decreased L2 ARC hit rate, decreased SSD (ad[46]), therefore increased hard disk load (IOPS graph) ... Any ideas on what could cause these? I haven't upgraded

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Attila Nagy
On 01/09/2011 10:00 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: On 12/16/2010 01:44 PM, Martin Matuska wrote: Hi everyone, following the announcement of Pawel Jakub Dawidek (p...@freebsd.org) I am providing a ZFSv28 testing patch for 8-STABLE. Link to the patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/patches/zfs/v28/sta

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/01/2011 10:24, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > On 9 January 2011 21:03, Matthew Seaman > wrote: > >> >> So you sacrifice performance 100% of the time based on the very unlikely >> possibility of drives 1+2 or 3+4 failing simultaneously, compared to the >> similarly unlikely possibility of drive

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all, Am 09.01.2011 um 11:03 schrieb Matthew Seaman: > [*] All of this mathematics is pretty suspect, because if two drives > fail simultaneously in a machine, the chances are the failures are not > independent, but due to some external cause [eg. like the case fan > breaking and the box toast

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
On 9 January 2011 21:03, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > So you sacrifice performance 100% of the time based on the very unlikely > possibility of drives 1+2 or 3+4 failing simultaneously, compared to the > similarly unlikely possibility of drives 1+3 or 1+4 or 2+3 or 2+4 But this is not what you firs

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/01/2011 09:01, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > Hi > > On 9 January 2011 19:44, Matthew Seaman > wrote: >> Not without backing up your current data, destroying the existing >> zpool(s) and rebuilding from scratch. >> >> Note: raidz2 on 4 disks doesn't really win you anything over 2 x mirror >> p

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Hi On 9 January 2011 19:44, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Not without backing up your current data, destroying the existing > zpool(s) and rebuilding from scratch. > > Note: raidz2 on 4 disks doesn't really win you anything over 2 x mirror > pairs of disks, and the RAID10 mirror is going to be rather m

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Attila Nagy
On 12/16/2010 01:44 PM, Martin Matuska wrote: Hi everyone, following the announcement of Pawel Jakub Dawidek (p...@freebsd.org) I am providing a ZFSv28 testing patch for 8-STABLE. Link to the patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/patches/zfs/v28/stable-8-zfsv28-20101215.patch.xz I've got an I

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Josef Karthauser
Brill! Thanks :) Joe On 8 Jan 2011, at 09:50, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 09:14:19AM +, Josef Karthauser wrote: >> On 7 Jan 2011, at 17:30, Artem Belevich wrote: >>> One way to get specific ratio for *your* pool would be to collect >>> record size statistics from your

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 09/01/2011 05:50, Randy Bush wrote: > given i have raid or raidz1, can i move to raidz2? > > # zpool status > pool: tank > state: ONLINE > scrub: none requested > config: > > NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM > tankONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz1