Hi, On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Alan Romeril wrote:
> Hello All, > In a moment of insanity I've upgraded from a 5200+ to a Phenom 9600 on my > zfs server and I've had a lot of problems with hard hangs when accessing the > pool. > The motherboard is an Asus M2N32-WS, which has had the latest available BIOS > upgrade installed to support the Phenom. > > bash-3.2# psrinfo -pv > The physical processor has 4 virtual processors (0-3) > x86 (AuthenticAMD 100F22 family 16 model 2 step 2 clock 2310 MHz) > AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor I have almost the same configuration, and with the same problem :-( ASUS M2N32 WS Professional, BIOS 1703 (latest available) Phenom 9600 Kingston PC2-5300, 2GB x 4. AOC-SATA2-MV8, 5 x samsung 750GB disks OpenSolaris NV81 This machine boot fine. I can login with gnome as desktop. But when I try to copy files to a zfs in a zpool created as a raidz of the five samsung disks, it crashes before 30MByte is copied. It has crashed with a fma-error, panics or just as a hang. > The pool is spread across 12 disks ( 3 x 4 disk raidz groups ) attached to > both the motherboard and a Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 in a PCI-X slot > (marvell88sx driver). The hangs occur during large writes to the pool, i.e a > 10G mkfile, usually just after the physical disk access start, and the file > is not created in the directory on the pool at all. The system hard hangs at > this point, even with booting under kmdb there's no panic string and after > setting snooping=1 in /etc/system there's no crash dump created after it > reboots. Doing the same operation to a single UFS disk attached to the > motherboard's ATA133 interface doesn't cause a problem, neither does writing > to a raidz pool created from 4 files on that ATA disk. If I use psradm and > disable any 2 cores on the Phenom there's no problem with the mkfile either, > but turn a third on and it'll hang. This is with the virtualization, and > power now extensions disabled in the BIOS. Thanks for the tip to disable 2 core, this works also for me. But I have had one crash after about 1 day. And how to run with all 4 core is still the question? /stefan _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
