Re: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds

2011-07-26 Thread Gordon Ross
ehalf Of Ian D >> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 7:52 AM >> To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> Subject: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds >> >> Hi all- >> We've been experiencing a very strange problem for two days now. >> >> We have thr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds

2011-07-26 Thread Ian D
Hi Garrett- It is something that could happen at any time on a system that has been working fine for a while? That system has 256G of RAM, I think "adequate" is not a concern here :) We'll try 3.1 as soon as we can download it. Ian -- This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds

2011-07-26 Thread Garrett D'Amore
olaris.org > [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian D > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 7:52 AM > To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds > > Hi all- > We've been experiencing a very strange problem

Re: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds

2011-07-26 Thread Ian D
No dedup. The hiccups started around 2am on Sunday while (obviously) nobody was interacting with neither the clients or the server. It's been running for months (as is) without any problem. My guess is that it's a defective hard drive that instead of totally failing, just stutters. Or mayb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds

2011-07-26 Thread Rocky Shek
Ian, Did you enable DeDup? Rocky -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian D Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 7:52 AM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few

Re: [zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds

2011-07-26 Thread Ian D
To add to that... iostat on the client boxes show the connection to always be around 98% util and tops at 100% whenever it hangs. The same clients are connected to another ZFS server with much lower specs and a smaller number of slower disks, it performs much better and rarely get past 5% util

[zfs-discuss] Entire client hangs every few seconds

2011-07-26 Thread Ian D
Hi all- We've been experiencing a very strange problem for two days now. We have three client (Linux boxes) connected to a ZFS box (Nexenta) via iSCSI. Every few seconds (seems random), iostats shows the clients go from an normal 80K+ IOPS to zero. It lasts up to a few seconds and things are