Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Duplicate devices in zpool, degraded

2018-01-09 Thread Jason Matthews
I would delete the cache file, reboot, and then re-import the volume. rm /etc/zfs/zfs.cache reboot J. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2018, at 5:45 PM, John D Groenveld wrote: > > In message , David > Koski > writes: >> # zpool replace syspool c2t0d0s0 c2t0d0s0 >> invalid vdev specificat

[OpenIndiana-discuss] d/l location for tamp

2018-01-10 Thread jason matthews
Can someone point me in the direction,or uhm email me,  the tamp-2.5 source tarball by tim cook from back in the day? they say nothing disappears from the internet but i routinely find that to be false... thanks, j. ___ openindiana-discuss m

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS encryption

2018-05-16 Thread jason matthews
I have read through the notes on https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/489 but I have been unable to gleam any notion of when pull 489 might be ready for prime time. Can someone closer to the project give me a best guess of when it might be upstreamed? thanks, j. _

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Huge ZFS root pool slowdown - diagnose root cause?

2018-12-10 Thread jason matthews
On 12/10/18 8:10 AM, Lou Picciano wrote: Machine does eventually boot, however - takes about 20 mins! Recent Hipster updates (2018-11-27) have been applied. System otherwise runs quite well. Most client data is on datapool; they remain oblivious. (To be honest, they were oblivious before this

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Huge ZFS root pool slowdown - diagnose root cause?

2018-12-11 Thread jason matthews
This is your offending device: $ pfexec smartctl -a -d sat,12 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0 | grep Raw_Read 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 094 094 016Pre-fail Always - 1376259 Try removing this disk. The boot manager is in your bios. It currently points to one of your rpool d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Huge ZFS root pool slowdown - diagnose root cause?

2018-12-11 Thread jason matthews
On 12/11/18 10:14 AM, John D Groenveld wrote: And when its replaced, I believe the OP will need to installboot(1M) the new drive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Illumos ZFS doesn't magically put the boot code with zpool replace. man installgrub installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 10G/40G net perf - what are you doing?

2020-11-08 Thread Jason Matthews
*So my 10G/40G network performance sucks. I have a combination of Chelsio and Intel 10 and 40G NICs. The 10G Intels do a little better. I have dug deeper into systems with Chelsio cards than Intel cards but what I found is that the receive buffer on the Chelsio card fills up and then it start

[OpenIndiana-discuss] how to swap nvme drives

2021-02-10 Thread jason matthews
I had an NVMe drive fail. I put a new drive in, and it assumed "Slot 11" from the view of cfgadm. The new drive shows up as connected/configured in cfgadm. However, no block device shows up in iostat.  The system is on joyent_20200910T013122Z. What additional secret sauce needs to be applie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] raidz2 as compared to 1:1 mirrors

2021-02-21 Thread Jason Matthews
11 TB is about right. Your 2TB disks will be "smaller" by nature of reporting differences. Much of that is difference between how drive manufacturers report a megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes and computers report a megabyte 1048576 bytes. In a nutshell, in your raidz2 vdev you have eight drives.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ssh to oi_151a9

2021-06-16 Thread Jason Matthews
If you are not using the Sun features in their version of ssh you can upgrade to OpenSSH current. If you have to run Sun’s ssh then consider running openssh on another port, for instance. J Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2021, at 9:27 AM, david allan finch wrote: > > Hi, > > I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: ZFS 0+1 across disparate drives

2021-12-01 Thread jason matthews
Yes, you can use whatever drives you have but don't expect it to have consistence performance. Each mirrored vdev will be as slow as the slowest drive. I would not put a green drive in the pool. Green drives have this nasty habit of spinning down to save power and be green like kermit the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Distro identify

2011-07-19 Thread jason matthews
> What's the best way to identify that a given system is running > OpenIndiana? uname -v ? You have lots of options. uname -v works jason@caprica:/data/home/jason$ uname -v oi_148 jason@caprica:/data/home/jason$ cat /etc/release OpenIndiana Development oi_148 X86

[OpenIndiana-discuss] how does one disable zil in OI?

2011-07-20 Thread jason matthews
The evil tuning guide indicates the ZIL can be turned on/off with: echo zil_disable/W0t1 | mdb -kw echo zil_disable/W0t0 | mdb -kw this does not appear to be valid in OI. Is there a new procedure to disable ZIL? Thanks, j. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mai

[OpenIndiana-discuss] jbod disk shelves with fmd fault led support

2011-07-20 Thread jason matthews
i am looking for oi friendly disk chassis that support managing the disk fault lights from fmd. i need approximately 40 units and while i have found some lsi 620js i havent found enough for my needs. excluding over priced sun gear, which shelves meet these requirements and work well? i know

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool create hangs

2011-07-21 Thread jason matthews
i have used osol134b with the adaptec supplied s10 driver as osol didnt have a working driver in the distribution i also used oi148b with the bundled driver with great success. you could try the adaptec driver, it wouldnt hurt, but i dont believe it will help. seems like your problem is somew

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] jbod disk shelves with fmd fault led support

2011-07-21 Thread jason matthews
yes my bad. i am looking for SAS chassis. what is the process for mapping drives? Sent from Jasons' hand held On Jul 20, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Gary Driggs wrote: > You didn't say whether you're looking for FC or SAS but the Promise series > offers both; > http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_cat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with 5 SAS best config

2011-07-21 Thread jason matthews
> Hi, I'm configuring a machine with 5 SAS disks dedicated to data. > I was thinking to make a raidz2 pool on these 5 disks. > What is the best option? > What if I want to do it 4 disks + 1 for spare? It is not clear to me what your requirements are. if you need speed and redundancy, use mirror

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] jbod disk shelves with fmd fault ledsupport

2011-07-21 Thread jason matthews
At the risk of beating a dead horse... Has anyone given the newisys NDS shelves a whirl? The nds-2241 looks awful lot like the 24 bay 2.5 inch shelves netapp pushes. It my hope that netapp drives it fault lights in the same fashion to how solaris does it. Is there anyone on the list with expe

[OpenIndiana-discuss] nexenta dsm

2011-07-25 Thread jason matthews
So our friends at DataOn offer a software package, marketed towards Nexenta, named DSM. It reportedly has a command line toolto identify and flip on fault lights in SES equipped chassis. They report that the CLI will work with OI. Does anyone have an experience with it, either good or bad? Tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nexenta dsm

2011-07-26 Thread jason matthews
ndiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nexenta dsm On Mon, Jul 25, 2011, jason matthews wrote: > > Does anyone have an experience with it, either good or bad? > Curious -- I only see the debian package for Nexentastor or NCP; http://apt.dataonstorage.com/dists/hardy-stable/main/bina

[OpenIndiana-discuss] BMC driver

2011-08-08 Thread jason matthews
Does the old trick of copying the BMC driver from NV134 or Solaris Express 151 work on OI148? I have tried to load both versions of that driver they both bombed out. Has anyone tried with OI151? Or am I just beating my head against the wall... Was there some sort of change in the kernel that bre

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Jason Matthews
Would tuning the kernel to deal with the super slow time-outs of consumer grade drives help? It is not going to make your consumer drive an enterprise product, or keep your performance high, but it might keep FMD from failing out your entire pool and/or corrupting the pool. These are guestimat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Jason Matthews
TLER was removed from the consumer drives in one of the rounds of firmware upgrades. That tunable is now only available in the enterprise versions of the disk -- at least that is my understanding. If you have fix it in the OS, it is going to be more expensive. See my last email on this. j. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] server hangs

2011-08-31 Thread Jason Matthews
perhaps checking fmd would be a good start but an overloaded ps is possible. fmdump -eV for your storage utilization some handy commands to add to your arsenal are: zpool list zfs get -r used cheers Sent from Jasons' hand held On Aug 31, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Daniel Kjar wrote: > Careful...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] server hangs

2011-09-01 Thread Jason Matthews
what about hw event logs? if you have power flucuations it might show ip there. you can probably pull those out from your service processor or boot to bios and read them there. Sent from Jasons' hand held On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Roman Naumenko wrote: > Costly troubleshooting you had.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA device errors, possibly due to IRQ conflict

2011-09-29 Thread Jason Matthews
since your bios doesnt reliably detect drives on reboot i would start by looking for firmware upgrades. smc likes to say dont upgrade your firmware unless you have a problem, i be you meet that requirement. j Sent from Jasons' hand held On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:31 AM, Daniel wrote: > Hi, >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physicalpositions

2011-10-03 Thread Jason Matthews
I use the LSI sas2ircu util and fmtopo to identify and flip on the 'identify' light on my disk chassis. I wrote a script, it is very rough and would require some tuning for your config, but it might solve your problem if your hardware is compatible. Compatible means, LSI controller and disk she

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drivestophysicalpositions

2011-10-03 Thread Jason Matthews
What did you stumble upon? Maybe its better than mine? ;-) -Original Message- From: Jeppe Toustrup [mailto:openindi...@tenzer.dk] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:10 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drivestophysicalpositions

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151 auto installer

2011-10-04 Thread Jason Matthews
Are their plans to release the AI for OI151 soon? I was planning on using OI148 and AI for a production environment. However, the repo is reportedly broken with no 'will' to fix it. This leaves me in the lurch if there is not AI for OI151. Alternately, does someone have a snaphot of the OI148 r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 151 auto installer

2011-10-04 Thread Jason Matthews
Josh, That's helpful thanks. It is funny, I was just looking at your blog when this email came in j. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS overSATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread Jason Matthews
> We've generally used only SAS for our ZFS pools, and will continue to > do so. However, we're looking at adding some SSDs and those are almost > exclusively SATA. Do folks see issues mixing SATA SSDs as cache and > log devices in with SAS disk for hybrid storage pools? I put my SAS drives in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS overSATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread Jason Matthews
What is the link speed of the SAS drives as reported by the controller? j. -Original Message- From: Hong Wei Liam [mailto:weiliam.h...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:59 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone using Micron C300 SSDs?

2011-10-29 Thread Jason Matthews
would adjusting the driver timeouts to be more aggressive benefit both the intel and crucial drives? j Sent from Jasons' hand held On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:23 PM, "Jason J. W. Williams" wrote: > Hi Tommy, > >> It caused a total I/O outage for something like 20 minutes before it was >> final

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BMC driver

2011-11-28 Thread jason matthews
On 11/27/11 4:11 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: Hi Jason, I'm just putting together an oi-151 machine running on an intel server board. Did you ever manage to get the bmc driver running? -Matt I am sorry to report that I havent had any joy on it yet. It is likely the mileage will vary based on t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008(PERC H200)

2011-12-01 Thread Jason Matthews
If you bought them with your personal American express card you have ninety days to retun most items. Have you tried verifying the link speed and/or locking the speed to 6Gb/s? j. -Original Message- From: Rich [mailto:rerc...@acm.jhu.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 2:17 PM To:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2011-12-21 Thread Jason Matthews
I have four web servers running two ip exclusive zones where nginx is the primary application. The systems have 16gb of ram, 1 L5630, on Intel S5500UR motherboards with onboard 82575EB Ethernet controllers. The load from the internet comes via round robin DNS. The four servers divvy up a high

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-04 Thread Jason Matthews
> We use DELL, and Sun^H^H^HOracle kit ... I love the Sun > kit for it's ILOM (able to access the bios remotely, > via console and browser) and it's impressive use of space > ... most HP kit is 4U for the same horsepower/storage > capacity of Sun 2U's ... I suspect many manufacturers these da

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-05 Thread Jason Matthews
Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: The actual question about HP, and or some other vender was > regarding say, if a HD disk would fail, controller and > or motherboard, I have a pretty good connection(and support) > regarding replace'ing them after few hours. So hardware > support would be great,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-01-09 Thread Jason Matthews
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST1000NM0001 Revision: 0001 Serial No: Z1N00DTCS12 Size: 1000.20GB <1000204886016 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 2 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 c2t5000C50033F5BFBBd0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 597 Transpo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS send recv soln

2012-01-09 Thread Jason Matthews
I don't like stating the obvious, but at a ten thousand foot view time slider will do this for you. Zmanada is fairly cheap. $400-750 for a server including one seat. Additional seats are $150. j. -Original Message- From: Marcus Dillury [mailto:mar...@dillury.net] Sent: Monday, Janu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-01-10 Thread Jason Matthews
you can adjust the disk timeouts in solaris. there are two schools of thought here: 1) accomodate the extremely long timeouts of cinsumer drives and let the drive decide whether to report an error back (fail itself out) 2) set the time outs very narrowly and be aggressive in letting zfs fail o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-01-10 Thread Jason Matthews
btw as of november there is likely new firmware for your lsi card. you might want to take this opportunity to upgrade. j Sent from Jasons' hand held On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:13 AM, Maurilio Longo wrote: > Geoff, > > I've hit this problem several times in the past, with OpenSolaris and then >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-17 Thread Jason Matthews
James Carlson wrote: > I don't know what is causing the problem you're seeing, but I do > have some guesses. > > Assuming it affects all packets, and not just those of a particular > type, the slow packet delivery sounds a bit like either a driver problem > or a problem with the (Crossbow-intro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

2012-01-18 Thread Jason Matthews
From: Francois Dion [mailto:francois.d...@gmail.com] > I currently use it to randomly shuffle music and backup the laptop. > I've never had it burp or error. This is on a Sony vaio Z series > laptop running OI 151a. Same cannot be said from random 3.5 sata > drives in no names powered usb enclo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-23 Thread Jason Matthews
From: Lou Picciano [mailto:loupicci...@comcast.net] > Yes, Jason, now that James has mentioned the 'Interrupt Storm' matter... > You've piqued my interest. Any chance you're having all these problems on > a SandyBridge system? Would love to hear more. In our case, we'd seen > in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-23 Thread Jason Matthews
-Original Message- From: James Carlson [mailto:carls...@workingcode.com] > It has a lot of tunables. First, there are the ones documented in > /kernel/drv/igb.conf. Of those, perhaps the most interesting is > flow_control. It looks like the hardware acceleration ones here are the >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unconfigure "hung disk" reports "attachment point not found"

2012-01-26 Thread Jason Matthews
you've already offlined the drive. i would simply detach it, replace the disk sith one that works, and attach to the surviving mirror or assign as spare. since the drive is sas anx your using mpt the os should discover the new drive on its own. j Sent from Jasons' hand held On Jan 25, 20

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Crossbow performance & bit rot

2012-01-30 Thread Jason Matthews
So I have determined the trigger event for the "resets" in the response times. It appears that there is some sort of memory leak in the kernel. When memory utilization gets very high, I am not sure how high but it is around a few hundred bytes on the freelists with zfs data near zero, the reset c

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

2012-02-13 Thread Jason Matthews
i would start even more conservatively and disable speed step in the bios first and then more on to the other suggestions. i am not a fan of speedstep in general. j. Sent from Jasons' hand held On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Bryan N Iotti wrote: > Maybe you could try disabling ACPI in BIOS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a

2012-03-27 Thread Jason Matthews
e-SATA shares the same electrical specification as SATA. The primary difference is in the cable shielding specification. I would consider using a LSI card and an adapter to go from the non/lightly shielded internal SATA cable to the heavily shielded e-SATA cable. I am not aware of anyone who make

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a

2012-03-27 Thread Jason Matthews
> Jason, I appreciate the input, but as I said, I'm already slot limited. > My mobo only has one pci-e slot, and that is occupied by the 8-port > m1015 HBA :( My apologies. I just skimmed the big block of text. So, the M1015 is a rebadged LSI 9240-8i, likely with the IR firmware.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a

2012-03-27 Thread Jason Matthews
Sorry I wasn't more helpful. btw, "log device" implies ZIL, as in intent log. j. -Original Message- From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:03 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Cc: Jason Matthews Subject: Re: [Open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] spurious degraded multipath messages?

2012-03-28 Thread Jason Matthews
you plugged a consumer sata disk into an enterprise sas controller and it told you your sata disk doesnt have two data ports connected to the controller. i suspect you knew this already :-) Sent from Jasons' hand held On Mar 28, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > Cool thanks.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] we'll pay a bounty to fix three annoying problems in illumos

2012-04-09 Thread Jason Matthews
My company is interested in having two driver issues and a software issue resolved and we are willing to pay a bounty. Saturday, we were hit by something that looked similar to the mpt/mpt_sas i/o hang issue https://www.illumos.org/issues/1069. This is a serious bug to any "enterprise" or "carri

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] we'll pay a bounty to fix three annoying problems in illumos

2012-04-09 Thread Jason Matthews
", some 3.5", some SATA, some SAS) and get the SES/FMD frameworks working for them. We are willing to pay for the Newisys NDS-2240. j. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: > > > My company is interested in having two driver issues and a software

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Building in zones

2012-05-01 Thread Jason Matthews
> My network interface is set up as as a bridged interface to > my pc's wireless card. If you are using a bridged interface then you need to match the mac address in virtualbox to the burned in address on your hardware. You can get your mac from: ipconfig /all in a command shell in windows Let

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no external connectivity on link

2012-05-01 Thread Jason Matthews
> ifconfig -a shows the aggregated link as well and all indications > are that it's fine Ifconfig doesn't do that. Try using the LACP related commands instead. Your output should look like like the following root@db031:~# dladm show-aggr -L LINKPORT AGGREGATABLE SYNC COLL DIST

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no external connectivity on link

2012-05-02 Thread Jason Matthews
> Are you prepared for no-improvement? Ethernet link aggregation often > disappoints people looking for more performance using IP. It may a reasonable effect if: 1) you are already saturating the link 2) you have sufficient number of partners and they you doing large block transfers If you ha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no external connectivity on link

2012-05-02 Thread Jason Matthews
Please verify that your host and switch have compatible activity settings. Compatible meaning, they are not the same ;-) I set the switch for active and the hosts for passive. You will receive inconsistent results like the host being reachable at times and unreachable at other times if they

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggregate (dladm)

2012-05-14 Thread Jason Matthews
-t is temporary. Try rebooting. There is some chance you'll be back to where you started ;-) j. -Original Message- From: Tim Dunphy [mailto:bluethu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 12:14 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] can't delete aggr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hot plug problem (ahci?) + openindianacrash

2012-05-22 Thread Jason Matthews
Let me get this straight... You installed the OS on the disk with the BIOS set to IDE. Later, you changed the BIOS to AHCI and the system crashes when booting. Is that about right? j. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] packages for oracle db

2012-05-22 Thread Jason Matthews
This will get you most of the way there... pkg install SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs compatibility/packages/SUNWxwplr SUNWlibm but I don't see SUNWi1of or SUNWxwplr in my copy of the repo. Perhaps you can think of some interesting ways to obtain those packages you need. j. -Original Message-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing oracle 11g

2012-05-23 Thread Jason Matthews
I don't want to sound insulting, but is X running? Are you on console or logged in over ssh? If ssh, is xforwarding enabled? If so, do you have some sort of X client on your side? Do other X clients work (eg. xload)? If console, who are youlogged in as? What user are you running the installer a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing oracle 11g

2012-05-23 Thread Jason Matthews
What Alan wrote. j. -Original Message- From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:alan.coopersm...@oracle.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:21 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing oracle 11g On 05/23/12 03:16 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> I don't want

[OpenIndiana-discuss] quick boots are a pain in my arse

2012-07-05 Thread Jason Matthews
So, my systems wont quick boot at all. Any quick boot results in the following message: NOTICE: unsupported 32-bit IO address on pci-pci bridge [7/0/0] NOTICE: unsupported 32-bit IO address on pci-pci bridge [7/0/0] Then system then hangs. Initial boots are always fine, as are full reboots. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] quick boots are a pain in my arse

2012-07-05 Thread Jason Matthews
I typo'd this. It should have read: NOTICE: unsupported 32-bit IO address on pci-pci bridge [7/0/0] NOTICE: unsupported 32-bit IO address on pci-pci bridge [8/2/0] Thanks, j. -Original Message- From: Jason Matthews [mailto:ja...@broken.net] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 5:34

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] quick boots are a pain in my arse

2012-07-06 Thread Jason Matthews
> -Original Message- > From: Marion Hakanson [mailto:hakan...@ohsu.edu] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 6:19 PM > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] quick boots are a pain in my arse > > > svccfg -s "system/boot-config:default" setprop config/fastr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and AVS guru $500

2012-07-24 Thread Jason Matthews
are you missing a zero to the left of the decimal place? j. Sent from Jasons' hand held On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:57 PM, "John T. Bittner" wrote: > Subject: ZFS and AVS guru > > I am working on setting up 2 SAN's to replicate via AVS. > The 2 sans I build have 15 drives SAS drives + 2 Cache SS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] LSI SAS2008 based Raid card not found

2012-07-27 Thread Jason Matthews
i have a large number of systems with 9211-8i with IR firmware running in jbod mode with now problems. infact 2003, 2008, and 2308 based cards all work for me in either IT mode or IR running as jbod (until i add a intel 910 but that is a work in progress) i have havent tried a megaraid card i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2012-08-06 Thread Jason Matthews
har har har! it is a three hump camel for sure. Sent from Jasons' hand held On Aug 6, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Holy water ... check. > Wooden stakes ... check. > Silver bullets ... check. > Chainsaw ... check. > > Okay, all ready here, we'll make sure it can't get back in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

2012-08-07 Thread Jason Matthews
welp, build it, package it up, and add it to a repo (or pay some one to do the same) i would rather see resources put to work on a hundred different things (or more, likely) before CDE. i would pay $ for fmd integration with newisys storage chassis so get in line behind me. ... for the gr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSD swap space performance

2012-08-08 Thread Jason Matthews
many ssds carry 3-year warranties and report useable life via smart. if you are concerned about wearing them then buy a spare or two and rma them as they approach burn out. that is what i do :) Sent from Jasons' hand held On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > Order of mag

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Using a SAN on OpenIndiana

2012-08-08 Thread Jason Matthews
i recommend 40Gb infiniband. oi has no support for management so you'll need switch. used fear is cheap on ebay. infiniband is generally cheaper than 10Gb ether on a per port basis and from a latency perspective there is comparison. stock exchanges dont use 10Gb ether, they use infiniband.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Jason Matthews
I only have one gripe with the mpt2 based cards (2008, 2308, etc) is that they cant currently be used as boot devices in the presence of an Intel 910 SSD. I have defect 490258-218190922 logged at LSI but there is seemingly no movement after several weeks. The status of this can be tracked at http

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for ZFS Pool?

2012-08-24 Thread Jason Matthews
I have several hundred SSDs in use as L2ARC. I have the monitoring system querying SMART data a number of times per day looking at the percentage of rated life used in effort to replace disks before we burn out the cells. Each time this query runs, it dirties the logs with some messages in regard

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for ZFS Pool?

2012-08-24 Thread Jason Matthews
> Do you have any real-life stats about SSD breakage (lifetime > expectancy) in L2ARC usage modes - did any of your SSDs > already reach their end-of-life, and if yes - what percentage > and how old were they? What model(s) do you use? The oldest round of gear uses 128GB Crucial M4s. I have seen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-25 Thread Jason Matthews
> I can say from experience chaining supermicro sas chassis with any type of > disk can be a recipe for disaster. Lsiutil reported a couple million > errors in a couple months time which eventually led to some sort of > contention and corruption on both sides of our mirrors. These were > also SA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HW sensors for OI?

2012-08-25 Thread Jason Matthews
Wow you are ambitious. We don't even have a bmc driver. Today, you would have to get the values from ipmi over the network or through SMASH if you have it. j. -Original Message- From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 4:20 PM To: Discussion list for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HW sensors for OI?

2012-08-26 Thread Jason Matthews
> there was a chance of porting *BSD BMC drivers as a legal > solution, or finding and using driver binaries from older > OpenSolaris as a questionable one. The bmc driver has been closed source from the start. I have been unable to get the bmc driver from SXC or even S11 to to work in 151a1, a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] is there a need for a US mirror?

2012-09-27 Thread Jason Matthews
I saw the thread about a new mirror in Europe. Does OI need an US mirrors in San Francisco or NoVA? I may be able to help, but I would like to get a better understanding of the current bandwidth usage. Thanks, j. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list Op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Jason Matthews
Reginald Beardsley Wrote: > This is new territory. I've never had the ability to > check the disk integrity before. So what is a sensible > scrub schedule? Monthly? Well, I do it by the book (I also service my car on the manufacturers intervals [but not the dealers]). I scrub once per mon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-28 Thread Jason Matthews
> Not sure I see an effective difference between a scrub that is run > quickly once a month and a scrub that runs for a month w/ little > performance impact on other usage. The problem was, the once a month batch job after running for day reported it was going to take six weeks. I suspect it wo

[OpenIndiana-discuss] beadm broken - multiple active environments

2012-10-03 Thread Jason Matthews
Okay, I some how managed to break beadm on one of my systems and I am hoping for a little help. The box has three zpools, rpool, data, and archive. If I export data, beadm works without errors. However, if data is imported then beadm gives me this lovely descriptive blurb: root@heimdall:~# bead

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beadm broken - multiple activeenvironments

2012-10-09 Thread Jason Matthews
Richard Lowe wrote: > Is there any possibility that you've cloned a zone onto that data pool? Sorry about the belated response. You are a genius. This was exactly the problem. I keep getting bitten by zfs send -R. It is convenient as it copies all the descendent file systems, but by also clon

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
From: heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com [mailto:heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com] > My point is most high end storage units has some form of data > verification process that is active all the time. As does ZFS. The blocks are checksumed on each read. Assuming you have mirrors or parity redundancy, the m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
> It seems the memory is going to the kernel. I have this problem on my web proxy tier, but not on my backend systems. I have checked kernel core dumps for memory leaks, switched the Ethernet cards/drivers, tested exclusive versus shared interfaces on the zones, and tweaked everything I could t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
> I can't tell you much about continuus use of VirtualBox and > its stability over long periods of time, I used it with success on > daily basis for few years now, with OI (and previously OpenSolaris) > being host. I've seen no problems with stability, however I only run > it for a day and t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
I should also mention that over all network performance degrades over time and the only fix I have sound so far is to shut down the zones, destroy the vnics, recreate them, and then reboot the zones. I do that about every four hours to keep the response times reasonable. It really sucks. j. __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
-Original Message- From: Cedric Blancher [mailto:cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com] > IMO you blame the wrong people. You can have the same kind of > problems with any Illumos-based distribution if you activate a > zone and let the machine just sit there for a week or so or have > a lot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
-Original Message- From: Brendan Gregg [mailto:brendan.gr...@joyent.com] > A full "echo ::kmastat | mdb -k" before reboot may show where the > memory is or isn't. I am not a point where I would normally reboot it, but we are pretty well deep into memory utilization for the size of th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
DCE usage continued... I am guessing this is likely my problem... root@web006:~# netstat -nd |wc -l 704075 It is really twice as bad as that, as there are two proxy zones per physical server. I found this which outlines the fundamental problem. http://smartos.org/2012/02/28/using-flamegr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-20 Thread Jason Matthews
> OK, sorry then. Same symptoms, different cause, albeit it's so > bad that it makes the OS virtually unusable for any serious work. Something does seem wrong. I process billions (and billions to channel Carl Sagan) of inserts into Postgres per day on the database tier. I consider that to be se

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Jason Matthews
From: Michael Stapleton [mailto:michael.staple...@techsologic.com] > You could try to set the crypo algorithm to none if you do not > need encryption. > > ssh -c none That wont work with the shipped ssh. You could use netcat target# nc -l -p 31337 | zfs recv data/path/etc source# zf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "bad mutex" crash?

2012-10-31 Thread Jason Matthews
I will take a shot in the dark here. I imagine the request will time out and be deleted in a few days. Then you could try again -- but I am just speculating. If Jesus was a web developer, that's how he would do it. j. -Original Message- From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswa...@druber.co

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

2012-11-17 Thread Jason Matthews
Sent from Jasons' hand held On Nov 17, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > > My box did have uncorrected raidz2 errors and couldn't even point > to a failed drive - it's as if they all scratched the same region > at once... > which may have been caused by power jerks or something, > with a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Future of OI

2012-12-17 Thread Jason Matthews
> I wonder if CheapBytes is still around Cheaper bandwidth probably delivered cheap bytes cheaper than CheapBytes. j. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Matthews
> BUT, when I try to find the zpools on the old disk with zpool > import, it says nada. And format only lists one disk besides the boot > disk. So, ideas? Which motherboard are you using? Do you have the drives connected to an HBA or the motherboard? If HBA, which HBA? If they are connected to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Knowledge Base for Compiling and InstallingSoftware Not Available as Packages.

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Matthews
> Perhaps some of you all might like to contribute to it, too? This is an interesting topic. I am also fond of reproducible processes. I learned from a colleague long ago to write Makefiles which in turn run other make files to boot strap an entire software stack -- sort of a lord of the rings

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Knowledge Base for Compiling andInstallingSoftware Not Available as Packages.

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Matthews
> For most (?) of us, we build a server once or twice a year. Some of us, build them hundreds at time, multiple times per year -- then multiply zones on top of that. Some might do it thousands of times per year. We may not be trying to solve the types of problems. For what it is worth, Mak

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-20 Thread Jason Matthews
Sent from Jasons' hand held On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:05 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" wrote: > But he didn't change the hardware - in the OP he said he replaced one disk > (the boot disk) and installed openindiana where he was previously running > opensolaris. sure. he also didnt say

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