Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-22 Thread Chad Cantwell
Hi Garrett, Since my problem did turn out to be a debug kernel on my compilations, I booted back into the Nexanta 3 RC2 CD and let a scrub run for about half an hour to see if I just hadn't waited long enough the first time around. It never made it past 159 MB/s. I finally rebooted into my 145

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-21 Thread Chad Cantwell
Hi, My bits were originally debug because I didn't know any better. I thought I had then recompiled without debug to test again, but I didn't realize until just now the packages end up in a different directory (nightly vs nightly-nd) so I believe after compiling non-debug I just reinstalled

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-21 Thread Chad Cantwell
gave it in my prior tests for the scrub to reach it's normal speed, although I can't do that until this evening when I'm home again. Chad On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:44:42AM -0700, Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi, My bits were originally debug because I didn't know any better. I thought I had

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-20 Thread Chad Cantwell
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:01:54PM -0700, Chad Cantwell wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:54:44AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: On 20/07/10 10:40 AM, Chad Cantwell wrote: fyi, everyone, I have some more info here. in short, rich lowe's 142 works correctly (fast) on my hardware, while

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-20 Thread Chad Cantwell
. Thanks, Chad On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 08:39:42AM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 20/07/2010 07:59, Chad Cantwell wrote: I've just compiled and booted into snv_142, and I experienced the same slow dd and scrubbing as I did with my 142 and 143 compilations and with the Nexanta 3 RC2 CD

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-20 Thread Chad Cantwell
No, this wasn't it. A non debug build with the same NIGHTLY_OPTIONS at Rich Lowe's 142 build is still very slow... On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 09:52:10AM -0700, Chad Cantwell wrote: Yes, I think this might have been it. I missed the NIGHTLY_OPTIONS variable in opensolaris and I think

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-20 Thread Chad Cantwell
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:45:58AM -0700, Brent Jones wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Chad Cantwell c...@iomail.org wrote: No, this wasn't it.  A non debug build with the same NIGHTLY_OPTIONS at Rich Lowe's 142 build is still very slow... On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 09:52:10AM -0700

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-19 Thread Chad Cantwell
with how I'm compiling the kernel that makes the hardware not perform up to its specifications with a zpool, and possibly the Nexanta 3 RC2 ISO has the same problem as my own compilations. Chad On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:08:50PM -0700, Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi all, I've noticed something strange

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-19 Thread Chad Cantwell
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:54:44AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: On 20/07/10 10:40 AM, Chad Cantwell wrote: fyi, everyone, I have some more info here. in short, rich lowe's 142 works correctly (fast) on my hardware, while both my compilations (snv 143, snv 144) and also the nexanta 3 rc2

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-19 Thread Chad Cantwell
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 06:00:04PM -0700, Brent Jones wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Chad Cantwell c...@iomail.org wrote: fyi, everyone, I have some more info here.  in short, rich lowe's 142 works correctly (fast) on my hardware, while both my compilations (snv 143, snv 144

[zfs-discuss] zpool throughput: snv 134 vs 138 vs 143

2010-07-06 Thread Chad Cantwell
a configuration parameter. I'm not sure offhand if installing source-compiled ON builds from a bfu'd rpool is supported, although I suppose it's simple enough to try. Thanks, Chad Cantwell ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-08 Thread Chad Cantwell
partly since it has PCI-X slots and I thought those might be useful for AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards if I couldn't shake the mpt issues, but now that the mpt issues are gone I can continue with that controller if I want. Thanks everyone for your help, Chad On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:12:50PM -0800, Chad

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-06 Thread Chad Cantwell
Thanks for the info on the yukon driver. I realize too many variables makes things impossible to determine, but I had made these hardware changes awhile back, and they seemed to work fine at the time. Since they aren't now, even in the older OpenSolaris (i've tried 2009.06 and 2008.11 now), the

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-05 Thread Chad Cantwell
to resort to motherboard swapping again. Chad On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:44:53PM -0800, Chad Cantwell wrote: I eventually performed a few more tests, adjusting some zfs tuning options which had no effect, and trying the itmpt driver which someone had said would work, and regardless my system

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-12-05 Thread Chad Cantwell
I was under the impression that the problem affecting most of us was introduced much later than b104, sometime between ~114 and ~118. When I first started using my LSI 3081 cards, they had the IR firmware on them, and it caused me all kinds of problems. The disks showed up but I couldn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-03 Thread Chad Cantwell
better and wipe again in the event of problems) Chad On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:06:31PM -0800, Chad Cantwell wrote: To update everyone, I did a complete zfs scrub, and it it generated no errors in iostat, and I have 4.8T of data on the filesystem so it was a fairly lengthy test. The machine also

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-01 Thread Chad Cantwell
errors fairly rapidly) Thanks again for your help. Sorry for wasting your time if the previously posted workaround fixes things. I'll let you know tomorrow either way. Chad On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:57:28PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Chad Cantwell wrote: After another crash I checked

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-01 Thread Chad Cantwell
, 2009 at 12:13:36AM -0800, Chad Cantwell wrote: I don't think the hardware has any problems, it only started having errors when I upgraded OpenSolaris. It's still working fine again now after a reboot. Actually, I reread one of your earlier messages, and I didn't realize at first when you

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-01 Thread Chad Cantwell
upgrades it creates a second root environment, but my forte isn't solaris so I just reformatted the root device) On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:09:32AM -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi, I was using for quite awhile OpenSolaris 2009.06 with the opensolaris-provided mpt driver

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-12-01 Thread Chad Cantwell
though, I'm sure it would generate errors and crash again. Chad On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:29:16AM -0800, Chad Cantwell wrote: Well, ok, the msi=0 thing didn't help after all. A few minutes after my last message a few errors showed up in iostat, and then in a few minutes more the machine

[zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread Chad Cantwell
Hi, Sorry for not replying to one of the already open threads on this topic; I've just joined the list for the purposes of this discussion and have nothing in my client to reply to yet. I have an x86_64 opensolaris machine running on a Core 2 Quad Q9650 platform with two LSI SAS3081E-R PCI-E 8

Re: [zfs-discuss] Workaround for mpt timeouts in snv_127

2009-11-30 Thread Chad Cantwell
Hi, I just posted a summary of a similiar issue I'm having with non-Sun hardware. For the record, it's in a Chenbro RM41416 chassis with 4 chenbro SAS backplanes but no expanders (each backplane is 4 disks connected by SFF-8087 cable). Each of my LSI brand SAS3081E PCI-E cards is connected to

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread Chad Cantwell
:34PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi, Sorry for not replying to one of the already open threads on this topic; I've just joined the list for the purposes of this discussion and have nothing in my client to reply to yet. I have an x86_64 opensolaris machine running

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread Chad Cantwell
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:43:06PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi, Replied to your previous general query already, but in summary, they are in the server chassis. It's a Chenbro 16 hotswap bay case. It has 4 mini backplanes that each connect via an SFF-8087

Re: [zfs-discuss] mpt errors on snv 127

2009-11-30 Thread Chad Cantwell
0 0 c2t10d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors # On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:46:13PM -0800, Chad Cantwell wrote: Hi, Sorry for not replying to one of the already open threads on this topic; I've just joined the list for the purposes of this discussion