[OpenIndiana-discuss] pfexecd memory use

2012-02-09 Thread Guo-Rong Koh
Hi all, I'm currently running oi_151a1 (the prestable repository) and seeing pfexecd eating memory. I did see this in oi_151a and upgraded to see if the issue was fixed. prstat tells me pfexecd's RSS is currently 554M, I've seen it up in the 2G+ range before it ate into swap and crashed the machi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-09 Thread Gordon Ross
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: > Dear list, > > I had a power outage at my house recently and my OpenIndiana backup server > has failed to reboot. [...] > Does anyone have any ideas on how to do more diagnostics / repairs?? You might try: zpool import -F $pool __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > Does ZFS periodically verify hot spares? For that matter, does it > > verify the RAIDZ disks? > > I'm not aware that ZFS checks disks or portions of disks that do not > have active data. This means that if you aren't using part of a hard > drive, it isn't being checked. It doesn't. You can us

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> In my experience it's often the resilvering process that triggers the > failure of the second drive -- and this is an issue with RAID in > general, > not just with ZFS. The reason is you're suddenly forcing a read of all > the > the data on all the remaining drives, and this can uncover latent >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Martin Frost wrote: > > Does ZFS periodically verify hot spares?  For that matter, does it > verify the RAIDZ disks? I'm not aware that ZFS checks disks or portions of disks that do not have active data. This means that if you aren't using part of a hard drive, it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >> I don't quite understand what happened in your specific case. Let's >> say you had a setup: >> raidz2 c1d0 c1d1 c1d2 c1d3 spare c1d4 c1d5 >> >> Let's say c1d3 failed. Resilver started and d4 replaced d3's place - >> you now have a non-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Martin Frost
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:50:47 -0800 > From: David Brodbeck > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk > wrote: > > > Now, I can somewhat see the argument in resilvering more drives > > in parallel to save time, if the drives fail at the same time, > > but how often do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Eric A. Borisch
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:50 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > In my experience it's often the resilvering process that triggers the > failure of the second drive -- and this is an issue with RAID in general, > not just with ZFS.  The reason is you're suddenly forcing a read of all the > the data on all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Now, I can somewhat see the argument in resilvering more drives in > parallel to save time, if the drives fail at the same time, but how often > do they really do that? Mostly, a drive will fail rather out of sync with > others. This le

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I don't quite understand what happened in your specific case. Let's > say you had a setup: > raidz2 c1d0 c1d1 c1d2 c1d3 spare c1d4 c1d5 > > Let's say c1d3 failed. Resilver started and d4 replaced d3's place - > you now have a non-degraded raidz2. You then physically swapped out d3 > for a new dr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from IR to IT mode on a LSI SAS2008 card

2012-02-09 Thread Geoff Nordli
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >> I have a Supermicro X8DTH-6F with a built-in SAS2008. >> >> I thought it was just an HBA, but when I went to update the firmware >> on the card it told me it was setup as IR mode. >> >> I plan on flashing it to IT mode. >> >> Anythin

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie question about SCSI 320

2012-02-09 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Hi there, this is the first SCSI system where I can actually mess around a bit (the first was a Mac IIci with a couple external HDs and a SCSI CDROM). Now, I have 2x 146Gb SCSI drives ("iostat -E" reports SEAGATE ST3146707LW revision HPS2), running my mirrored rpool. It seems like there is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resilver restarting on second dead drive?

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Owoc
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > On this server, I had a drive dying on me, and the spare kicked in. I > replaced the drive, detached the spare and "zpool replace"d the original dev, > waiting for it to resilver. When this was almost finished (say, 2 hou

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic with Intel i7-2670QM CPU (HP EliteBook 8560w)

2012-02-09 Thread Matt Connolly
I've experienced the "interrupt storm" (at that's what I think it is - ever increasing kernel cpu usage and slowing down machine) on a new sandy bridge Xeon E3. As far as I'm aware there is a fix for this in the prestable package repo. I just updated my publisher to that on my Xeon machine abou

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-09 Thread Matt Connolly
Dear list, I had a power outage at my house recently and my OpenIndiana backup server has failed to reboot. I've attempted the following diagnostics: - boot with -k -v shows a kernel panic where the boot pool fails to mount because it is degraded. - I've booted with Gparted Live CD and can ve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from IR to IT mode on a LSI SAS2008 card

2012-02-09 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I have a Supermicro X8DTH-6F with a built-in SAS2008. > > I thought it was just an HBA, but when I went to update the firmware > on the card it told me it was setup as IR mode. > > I plan on flashing it to IT mode. > > Anything I should be aware before I do this? If you're paranoid, export th