Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Deleting zpool.cache on OI

2013-12-01 Thread Steve Gonczi
it finish what it is doing in the background. Steve - Original Message - Yes, Steve, exactly. I'd like to save the rest of my installation, but I have a pool that when mounted on any system, prevents a reboot when mounted. ___ OpenIn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Deleting zpool.cache on OI

2013-11-30 Thread Steve Gonczi
I could be wrong but I think he wants to know how to do this on a system that hangs while trying to mount the pool. Your article is should help . Nice job, btw. Steve - Original Message - What do you want to achieve this way? http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+ZFS+Pools+as

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM based devices as ZIL

2013-09-19 Thread Steve Gonczi
For a fast (high ingest rate) system, 4G may not be enough. If your Ram device space is not sufficient to hold all the in-flight Zill blocks, it will fail over, and the Zil will just redirect to your main data pool. This is hard to notice, unless you have an idea of how much data should be f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] spontaneous reboot with record in fault management

2013-08-26 Thread Steve Gonczi
This looks like an actual pci device error to me. I would dig deeper and look at the errors with fmdump -v -e Steve - Original Message - on occasion i have systems spontaneously rebooting. i can often find entries like this in fault management but it is not particularly helpful. i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

2013-08-20 Thread Steve Goldthorpe
metry and insist on cylinder alignment)... -Steve On 19 August 2013 18:28, Richard Elling wrote: > On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) < > openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > >> From: Steve Goldthorpe [mailto:openindi...@waistcoat.org.uk] > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

2013-08-19 Thread Steve Goldthorpe
55) = 3341 so change vmdk to ddb.geometry.sectors = "32" ddb.geometry.heads = "255" ddb.geometry.cylinders = "3341" 3341*255*32 > 1697*255*63 :-) I'll have a play tonight... -Steve On 18 August 2013 17:23, Steve Goldthorpe wrote: > No matter what I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] trying to get 4K aligned root pool on ESX

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Goldthorpe
creates, it always use partition 0 for the rpool and starts that on cylinder 1. As it thinks the geometry is 255 heads & 63 sectors/track this will surely not be aligned. Do I have to fudge the geometry too somehow? I think none root pool disks will be fine as I ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-07 Thread Steve Gonczi
mentioned, I am curious what are the performance and space usage implications when the file size and compression are taken into consideration. Steve - Original Message - Yes, I've had similar results on my rig and complained some time ago... yet the ZFS world moves forward with desi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Destroying unavailable ZFS dataset

2013-06-02 Thread Steve Gonczi
ive having been part of another pool). Steve >I am concluding that something on the old SSD drive still has a record >of the old ZFS set which must have been stored somewhere other than the >standard partitions ... I don't know where else this infor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Destroying unavailable ZFS dataset

2013-06-01 Thread Steve Gonczi
m? The Zfs term "Dataset" is specifically: a file system, snapshot, clone or zvol, but perhaps you are talking about a pool here. Exporting and reimporting a pool sometimes helps resolving pool inconsistencies. Steve - Original Message - Hi Folks, I'm having

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI

2012-12-10 Thread steve
I want an open source, community based ZFS storage backend. Is OI the correct choice?? Seems to work OK. I don't want a gui Is there an alternative? No, ZFS on FreeBSD/Linux doesn't cut it. -steve > i would be happy, if OI can be a success story > > bu

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem running rsync with smf service

2012-12-07 Thread steve
end summary * Ideas? Details below . thanx - steve Details * root@live-dfs-1:/var/adm# diff /lib/svc/method/rsyncd /home/steve/rsyncd-smf 53c53 <sudo -u nobody $DAEMON --daemon --config="$RSYNC_

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] format and cfgadm show different controllers / disks??

2012-07-19 Thread steve
c5000bc44a5f c4::w5000c500525c2f91,0disk-pathconnectedconfigured unknown 8. c2t5000C500525C2F91d0 /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000c500525c2f91 -steve > >> c4::w5000c5000bc44cfd,0disk-pathconnectedconfigured >> unknown >> c4::w5

[OpenIndiana-discuss] format and cfgadm show different controllers / disks??

2012-07-19 Thread steve
Howdy! I have a Dell 610 with LSI 9200-8e HBA connected to Supermicro 847 (45 disk 4U JBOD) Each port on the LSI is connect by separate cable to one of the 2 BackPlanes on the SM847. How come format and cfgadm show different controllers and devices.. - cfgadm -al all devices o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] COMSTAR qlt dropping link and resetting

2012-05-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
in the Zfs disk io path. eg. Large File deletions with dedup Turned On may cause an Io Storm and that In turn may cause your Problem. Steve On May 18, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Adrian Carpenter wrote: > We are using one port of each of a pair of Qlogic 2562 cards to act as a FC > target f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

2012-03-19 Thread Steve Gonczi
o the "new" motherboard. Steve - Original Message - I'm trying to access the /etc files from another system on which I installed OI 148. I can import the pool as fpool and can access /mnt/fpool & /mnt/export. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to get to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I debug this?

2012-02-08 Thread Steve Gonczi
It is long shot, but check how much space you have where your core dumps supposed to go. Your root pool may have limited space. Also, the visibility of core dumps has security implications, they could be inaccessible unless you are looking as root. Steve - Original Message

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Diskless Boot + root fs on Ramdisk

2012-01-19 Thread steve
no - objfs - /system/object objfs - no - sharefs - /etc/dfs/sharetab sharefs - no - fd - /dev/fd fd - no - -steve ~ ~ >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Diskless Boot + root fs on Ramdisk

2012-01-19 Thread steve
t I guess I missed something? What else do I need to do? Do I need to edit /etc/system or /etc/vfstab or /lib/svc/method/?? thanx - steve ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing OI 151 ssh with OpenSSH 5.9?

2012-01-18 Thread Steve Gonczi
visible 2009/408 (presumably 2009 april 8). That would peg the Sun ssh version as "last synced with OpenSSH 5.2". The current OpenSSH is 5.9.. Steve G - Original Message - They're needed so that sshd correctly uses solaris's version of PAM and audit and other

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZIL write cache performance

2012-01-13 Thread Steve Gonczi
ool (or is this wrong?) > > Thanks for the heads up about the bug and pending fix.. I'll take a look. > > -Matt. > > On 13/01/2012, at 9:34 AM, Steve Gonczi wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> The ZIL is not a performance enhancer. (This is a common mis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZIL write cache performance

2012-01-12 Thread Steve Gonczi
need to be aware of a recent performance regression discovered pertaining to ZIL ( George Wilson has just posted the fix for review on the illumos dev list) This has been in Illumos for a while, so it is possible, that it is biting you. Steve - Original Message - Hi, I've install

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] io_151 kernel lock up

2011-12-05 Thread Steve Gonczi
Your last line of vmstat shows a high number of context switches and interrupts . Most of the time is accounted for in the idle time column. mpstat output would probably be more useful, perhaps you have lock contention. /sG/ - Original Message - Hi! I encounter the following pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS stalls with oi_151?

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Gonczi
Are you running with dedup enabled? If the box is still responsive, try to generate a thread stack listing e.g: echo "::threadlist -v" > mdb -k > /tmp/threads.txt Steve On Oct 21, 2011, at 4:16, Tommy Eriksen wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've got a bit of a ZFS prob

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
:quit Steve - Original Message - You mean, besides being quite huge? I took a quick look at it, but other than getting a headache by doing that, my limited unix skills unfortunately fail me. I've zipped it an attached it to this mail, maybe someone can get anything out of it...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
i86_mwait is the idle function the cpu is executing when it has nothing else to do. Basically it sleeps inside of that function. Lockstat based profiling just samples what is on cpu, so idle time shows up as some form of mwait, depending on how the bios is configured. Steve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Gonczi
Your lockstat output fingers Acpi debug tracing functions. I wonder why these are running in the first place. Steve - Original Message - Hello all, I have a machine here at my home running OpenIndiana oi_151a, which serves as a NAS on my home network

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
Perhaps the focus should be amping up hald logging, so that if and when the problem happens you have some info to look at. The hald man page has examples on how to do this via svccfg. Steve - Original Message - Hi Steve, thanks a lot for your help! The problem is that the issues

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to troubleshoot failing hardware causing hoot hangs

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
help Show this information and exit\n" 221 "--version Output version information and exit" 222 "\n" 223 "The HAL daemon detects devices present in the system and provides the\n" 224 "org.freedesktop.Hal service through the system-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "init 6/reboot" reboots the OS but not the hardware

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Gonczi
power outlets you can buy. These allow power control of the individual power plugs remotely. Steve - Original Message - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just upgraded an aged OpenSolaris 2009.6 to OpenIndiana 148 and I have a silly but annoying issue. When doing

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ? Additional info ?

2011-07-26 Thread Steve
Uh, new to OpenIndiana (O.I.) and kind of dismayed to see the lack of any community forum anywhere - with the exception to this mailing list... which is hardly the ideal way to resolve an issue, or seek guidance IMHO. I was able to find something at OpenSolaris.org but the "Indiana" category app

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel Panic installing openindiana on a HP BL460c G1

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Gonczi
t;out of memory" condition? Best Wishes, Steve */ 2486 void * 2487 kmem_cache_alloc ( kmem_cache_t * cp , int kmflag ) 2488 { 2489 kmem_cpu_cache_t * ccp = KMEM_CPU_CACHE ( cp ); 2490 kmem_magazine_t * fmp ; 2491 void * buf ; 2492 2493 mutex_enter (& ccp -> cc_lock ); /sG/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Gonczi
uld use more than 4GB total; just not > individually. > > Mike > > > On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:58 +, Steve Gonczi wrote: > >> For Intel CPUs, 32 bit code is certainly more compact , and in some cases >> arguably faster than 64 bit code. (say, comparing the sa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Steve Gonczi
y limited to 4G, which is split between kernel and userland depending on the OS and configuration. (E.g.: 1G kernel and 3G userland) Steve - "Michael Stapleton" wrote: While we are talking about 32 | 64 bit processes; Which one is better? Faster

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PANIC "vmem_hash_delete(): bad free" all versions > svn_111

2011-05-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
man dumpadm.. You have to enable crash dumps, and select a location where you have some room to save them. When you just run dumpadm it will tell you what your current settings are. If you do not have crashdumps enabled, you may be able to save the last crashdump by running "savecore /some/l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] PANIC "vmem_hash_delete(): bad free" all versions > svn_111

2011-05-14 Thread Steve Gonczi
focus another issue. The community would benefit from a server, where people could upload crash dumps in cases like this. I am sure there are several people reading this list, who may be able and inclined to take a quick look and provide a first cut diagnosis on a volunteer basis . Steve /sG

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

2011-05-13 Thread Steve Gonczi
Hi Dan, If you monitor the Illumos checkins, you will see that there is a fair amount of activity going on. I am unsure how this correlates with any binary release schedule but at least at the OS source code level, things are surely being fixed. /sG/ - "Dan Swartzendruber" wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Build 147 ZFS / NFS / iSCSI system reboot

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Jacobson
Alasdair - this looks very relevant - Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have a build environment set up right now, so I'm not sure how soon I can test this. Within a couple of days, though, I hope to have some good data on this. -steve j -- Steve Jacobson | Director of Operations | D

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Build 147 ZFS / NFS / iSCSI system reboot

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Jacobson
and we're not on the old. We think that might be what's contributing to the reset call. Regardless, though, the panic on OI is our biggest concern. Thx! -steve j -- Steve Jacobson | Director of Operations | Doyenz, Inc. 11245 SE 6th Street, Suite 120 | Bellevue, Wash. | 98004 Main: 2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Build 147 ZFS / NFS / iSCSI system reboot

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Jacobson
iSCSI targets on the Ubuntu system. There are two of these SuperMicro shelves. So, there are ten LUNs available by iSCSI to OpenIndiana. The tank is created with one VDEV for the ten LUNs. -- Steve Jacobson | Director of Operations | Doyenz, Inc. 11245 SE 6th Street, Suite 120 | Bellevue

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Build 147 ZFS / NFS / iSCSI system reboot

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Jacobson
n the head system comes back, it appears to be just fine, but at some point in the future, when there is i/o, it will reboot again. Has anyone seen behavior like this before, or does anyone have any advice on how to debug / resolve this? Thanks! -Steve J -- Steve Jacobson | Director of Operation

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitoring OI with Zenoss

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Gonczi
Check out chime -:::-sG-:::- On Jan 27, 2011, at 23:28, WK wrote: > I am experimenting with using Zenoss to monitor OI 148, and I was wondering > if anyone had any advice on configuring SNMP for this purpose? Zenoss is > showing the uptime, but not much more. On my Linux machines, it shows ne

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Enable samba

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Gonczi
Just a Wild guess you may have The kernel cifs occupying The Smb Ports already Make sure cifs Is shut off -:::-sG-:::- On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:43, Paul Johnston wrote: > Hi > > I have SunOS openindiana 5.11 oi_148 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris and wanted to > try it for samba > > However > paulj@