8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello, Not sure if it's worth troubleshooting this too much before upgrading, but we recently had an 8.1R/amd64 box hang in a way that suggested everything was waiting on disk access. It's remote and we had to resort to a power-cycle to bring it back (we have serial console, but it hung

Ports and Packages for Supported Releases

2011-05-17 Thread Erwin Lansing
Portmgr published a new page on their website which describes the current support and EoL policies for the ports tree and released packages. The main take-home messages are: - Support of FreeBSD releases by ports and the ports infrastructure matches the policies set out by the FreeBSD Security

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:43:44AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: Not sure if it's worth troubleshooting this too much before upgrading, but we recently had an 8.1R/amd64 box hang in a way that suggested everything was waiting on disk access. It's remote and we had to resort to a power-cycle

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/05/2011 10:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:43:44AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: Does this sound familiar to anyone running ZFS with snapshots? Yes, and is exactly why I don't use them. :-) You put a smiley, but is this an attempt at FUD? --

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/05/2011 10:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:43:44AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: Does this sound familiar to anyone running ZFS with snapshots? Yes, and is exactly why I don't use

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/05/2011 14:29 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/05/2011 10:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:43:44AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: Does this sound familiar to anyone running ZFS with

MSI-X problem on Intel NC365T 82580 at FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1

2011-05-17 Thread S.Kislitsyn
Greetings, dear Sirs We are using FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 as main gateway router at HP DL160 G6 with Intel 82576 integrated network adapter (works fine with MSI-X) driver version - Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version - 2.2.3 to get more ports we installed additional network adapter

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:55:54PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/05/2011 14:29 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/05/2011 10:30 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:43:44AM -0400, Charles

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/05/2011 15:23 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: So for Charles' situation, the next time it happens what would be useful for him to provide? The best I could come up with was to induce doadump then reboot to get the system up/working again, and then use kgdb after-the-fact. This is

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/05/2011 15:23 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: So for Charles' situation, the next time it happens what would be useful for him to provide? The best I could come up with was to induce doadump then reboot to get the system up/working again, and

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 18/05/2011 04:49 Charles Sprickman said the following: On Tue, 17 May 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote: Less drastic approach to hanged I/O debugging is to find out where processes/threads are actually stuck. E.g. using procstat -kk. Odd you say that because we've got an old 32-bit 8.1 box