Quoting Adam Vande More (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011
12:20:45 -0500):
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
I'm aware of that, but the only way the problem shows up is when a
windows machine performs an installation or a windows update (and has
alot of updates in the pipeline).
>> It's a supermicro server with dual igb-nics on the mainboard. I did
>> try other cables and other ports on the switch (hp procurve). I don't
>> have access to the server atm. but I'll get the chip-info in a day or
>> two. Both ip-addresses are on same subnet.
>>
>> Speed is autonegotiated to 1 G
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:37:34PM +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> >> All ip-activitiy, dns, ssh etc. on the interface (ip-address) that is
> >> mounted. So whenever I test I log in to the server using the other
> >> ip-address and whenever it stops responding to ping or my screen
> >> session stops
>> All ip-activitiy, dns, ssh etc. on the interface (ip-address) that is
>> mounted. So whenever I test I log in to the server using the other
>> ip-address and whenever it stops responding to ping or my screen
>> session stops I reload the interfaces and the traffic resumes.
>
> Are the two NICs t
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> I'm aware of that, but the only way the problem shows up is when a
> windows machine performs an installation or a windows update (and has
> alot of updates in the pipeline). When traffic (i/o) is low to
> moderate it justs goes along with
Quoting Claus Guttesen (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011
06:57:40 +0200):
I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1
servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes
unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server
itself is up but is not reach
>> I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1
>> servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes
>> unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server
>> itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the
>> nic down and up
>
> I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1
> servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes
> unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server
> itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the
> nic down and up a
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:50:29 +0200 Claus Guttesen
wrote:
> > However, the better solution, and the one most recommended for those
> > using NFS with ZFS, is to install a small, write-optimised,
> > SLC-based SSD to the system as a separate log (SLOG/ZIL) device.
> >
> > NFS is a very sync-heavy p
> If your disk controller has a lot of cache on it, and a battery
> backup, then enabling the write cache and disabling the ZIL can be
> faster, without sacrifising consistency (the write cache on the
> controller acts like a ZIL). There's several threads on the
> zfs-discuss mailing list where th
>> I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1
>> servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes
>> unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server
>> itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the
>> nic down and up
Quoting Claus Guttesen (from Mon, 28 Mar 2011
13:22:00 +0200):
I've setup a server with FreeBSD 8.2 (prerelase) and patched zfs to
ver. 28. The server has 11 disks each 2 TB in raidz2. The performance
is very good and I've got approx. 117 MB/s on plain GB nics using
iscsi.
I'm mounting the F
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> I've setup a server with FreeBSD 8.2 (prerelase) and patched zfs to
> ver. 28. The server has 11 disks each 2 TB in raidz2. The performance
> is very good and I've got approx. 117 MB/s on plain GB nics using
> iscsi.
>
> I'm mounting the Fre
Hello,
I'd be curious to know how much memory you have. Also, you mention both
iSCSI and NFS in the post and also say that you are using ESX with NFS.
Can you reconfirm that you're definitely using NFS and not iSCSI?
This is a type of setup I've been investigating myself and I hope you
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